Heh, JoPo Royals power update
http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/201...date.html#more
And this gets to the heart of something else. The Royals have not exactly been facing the 1965 Dodgers pitching staff in this absurd stretch. A look at the starting pitchers the Royals have faced during this streak makes the thing even more impossible:
5/28: Tyler Lyons (rookie making his second big-league start)
5/27: Adam Wainwright
5/26: Jerome Williams
5/25: Billy Buckner (former Royal, making his first big league start in three years)
5/24: Jason Vargas (30-year-old who was second in homers allowed last year, giving up 35)
5/23: Joe Blanton (who came into game 0-7, 6.62 ERA, with league slugging .562 against him)
5/22: Jordan Lyles (22-year-old who came into game with 6.63 ERA with league slugging .524 against him)
5/21: Bud Norris
5/20: Dallas Keuchel (who came in having given up 19 homers in 113 career innings)
5/19: A.J. Griffin (who had allowed eight homers in 51 innings, he gave up three more in his next start)
5/18: Tommy Malone (31 homers in his previous 241 innings)
5/17: Jarrod Parker (nine homers in 40 innings coming -- also a 6.64 ERA)
5/15: Barry Enright (second start in more than two years)
You know who is not on that list? Justin Verlander. And CC Sabathia. And Felix Hernandez. And really any of the, say, 40 best pitchers in the American League. Other than Wainwright, you would have thought the Royals would hit home runs BY ACCDIDENT.