The Royals Should...

The semi-dramatic conclusion to the Royals road-trip and series was something of a bright spot for a lot of reasons and one tha SHOULD lead to good things...

1. Alex Gordon beaver-taps a bomb to center to win the ball game after a horrible game. Now, in a perfect world, this should lead to the resurgence of Alex Gordon and add to what has been a promising start to the season for the Royals offensively. At the same time allowing him to shake-off two early season errors and become a rock at third-base again.

2. Zack Grienke´s start was very much more Grienke-like. This should lead to all concerns that he´s not the same pitcher being diminished and put him on his way to being the same dominant starter that we saw last year.

3. The bullpen bent but didn´t break. While the duo of Rupe and Parrish blew the win for Zack it wasn´t that bad; a sac bunt and a seeing-eye single led to a run. The key being A RUN not four, five or six but a single run which only allowed the game to be tied and gave Alex the chance to become hero for a day. After the set-back Tejada came out and dominated, which should be a good sign and Soria, as it should be, breezed his way to a clean save.

4. Guillen hit another bomb. He should be on his way to solid season with the bat, while we expect some cooling down, a full season at DH with 25 HRs and 100 RBI is well within his sights.

5. The team was all of those words coaches like to use when describing their teams ability to stop the bleeding (Resilient, Gritty, Verterany, etc.) They won the final games of the series´ in Toronto and Minnesota after losing the first two and where a third loss would have stung. Thus the Royals did exactly what good teams should do when things don´t go quite right; salvage a game and move on.

The Royals come back to the lovely K tonight to square off against the Twins, now what they should do tonight is: Gil after showing positive signs in his last game, should have a good outing, after pounding Pavano in his last outing the offense should put up some runs tonight and they should kick-off a successful home-stand. One that should, could, maybe, please for the love of God lead to a decent season!!!