{"id":1829482,"date":"2026-07-17T02:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1829482"},"modified":"2026-07-17T02:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:10:40","slug":"royals-adotam-uma-mentalidade-para-o-ataque-no-segundo-tempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/royals-adotam-uma-mentalidade-para-o-ataque-no-segundo-tempo\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals adotam uma mentalidade para o ataque no segundo tempo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Royals fell behind early in Saturday night\u2019s game at Baltimore and lost 6-1 to the Orioles.<\/p>\n

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The F-word was used afterward \u2014 albeit not the curse word.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSuper frustrating,\u201d Royals second baseman Michael Massey said afterward. \u201cSuper frustrating last two nights. Super frustrating whole first half of the season, right? I think we can be honest about where we\u2019re at and the way things have gone. And we\u2019ve got to get better. We\u2019ve got to figure out how to get better.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve got to figure out what we need to address and how we\u2019re going to do it. So we\u2019ve got to come out and compete tomorrow and try to get a win going into the break, and come back and really be better in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the Royals lost 8-2 on Sunday and were swept out of Baltimore. At 38-59, the Royals are tied with the Angels for the worst record in baseball.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not what the players or the pundits expected.<\/p>\n

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In its preseason rankings, the Ringer predicted the Royals would have at least 83 wins<\/u><\/a>. ESPN also saw a winning record at 83-79<\/u><\/a>. Baseball Prospectus\u2019 PECOTA projection saw the Royals winning the American League Central.<\/p>\n

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But at the All-Star break, the Royals have a 0% chance<\/u><\/a> of winning the division.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFrustration is one word. You know, disappointment, anger, every emotion that you can think of,\u201d Royals manager Matt Quatraro said Sunday. \u201cI mean we\u2019re battling, not getting any results, and it stinks. Everybody\u2019s frustrated. Everybody in here puts in every effort they can, and when you come out on the losing end as much as we have, it\u2019s been a bad first half. It\u2019s been a bad pre-All Star break, and nobody in there is happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Royals will have to win two of every three games just to get to the .500 mark by season\u2019s end, which would seem to make them prime candidates to be one of baseball\u2019s clear sellers at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

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In early June, Royals general manager J.J. Picollo said the team probably would begin evaluating whether to be trade-deadline buyers or sellers at the All-Star break. He reiterated that a few weeks ago. Picollo also noted the Guardians last season and the Tigers in 2024 both got hot and made the playoffs.<\/p>\n

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One big difference: The low point for Cleveland was eight games below .500 and Detroit was nine under. The Royals are 21 games under .500.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was (the start of) a 12-game run probably when he said that. I think we were hoping just to kind of see 12 games. If you go 9-3, it\u2019s a different outlook,\u201d said Scott Sharp, the Royals\u2019 senior vice president of major league operations\/assistant general manager. \u201cWe just haven\u2019t done that going into the break.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ll regroup. Got about roughly three weeks coming out of the break from the deadline. We hope to be opportunistic in any way we can, and for this club for now and in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Royals instead went 3-9 in that stretch. They are only 10 games out of a wild-card spot, which is not bad considering their record. But every other contender is above them, except the Angels.<\/p>\n

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In the AL Central, the Royals are 6 1\/2 games behind fourth-place Detroit and trail the first-place White Sox and Guardians by 13.<\/p>\n

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The Royals open the second half of the season with a series at home against the Padres. They\u2019re hoping for a fresh start, but the approach seems far too familiar to many fans.<\/p>\n

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\u201cObviously, it\u2019s not a first-half\/second-half thing, but it\u2019s kind of a clean slate in a way,\u201d Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino said. \u201cJust everybody get away, except for the guys going to the All-Star Game. Get away, try to clear your head and get ready to go. We can\u2019t focus on anything external right now. We\u2019ve got to focus day by day, at-bat by at-bat, pitch by pitch. It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd I know you guys are tired of hearing us say that, but it\u2019s just the truth. Like, we gotta go out there and win every pitch in the second half, and we can\u2019t worry about anything else but that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. is one Royal who didn\u2019t get a four-day break \u2014 he was a starter in Tuesday evening\u2019s All-Star Game in Philadelphia. He, too, is angry and eager to forget about KC\u2019s first-half woes.<\/p>\n

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This is not what was expected from a team that had a winning record the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think you\u2019ve got to take it as a fresh start. Put it in the past,\u201d Witt said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t what we wanted. It wasn\u2019t what we thought we were capable of doing. And for me, for guys in this clubhouse, it sucked in a way because of what we did, and the team in spring training that we thought we had.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe show up, and we didn\u2019t play the way we thought we were going to. And so it\u2019s frustrating. But now you put that in the past. You have a couple of days to regroup and get back to work, because we\u2019re not just going to roll over.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There are historical examples of teams that seemed dead in the water only to catch fire and make the playoffs. The 1978 Yankees, the 1964 Cardinals, the 1993 Braves, the 1995 Braves.<\/p>\n

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Even if the 2026 Royals can\u2019t add their name to that roster of amazing comebacks, the Kansas City front office sees a bright future for many players.<\/p>\n

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That would seem to indicate there won\u2019t be wholesale changes at the Aug. 3 trade deadline.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe believe in the roster,\u201d Sharp said. \u201cWe believe in the guys that are here long term. So we want to continue to add in that group.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Da cobertura da World Series \u00e0 Copa do Mundo, Pete Grathoff fez de tudo um pouco desde que ingressou no Kansas City Star em 1997. <\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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