CLEVELAND — A feeling all too familiar settled over the visiting clubhouse at Progressive Field on Wednesday afternoon. The Royals were swept out of Cleveland with a 4-0 defeat by the Guardians, as the losses keep mounting for the team with the worst record (16-33) in baseball.
“It continues to be tough,” manager Mike Matheny said. “We’ve had some really hard losses. Every one of them now, they just continue to pile on the frustration in that room.”
The Royals are heading back to Kansas City after a 2-7 road trip with the onus on them to leave what happened on the road behind. But the task won’t get easier from here, as the club will welcome the Astros and Blue Jays, likely playoff contenders, to Kauffman Stadium this weekend and next week.
Wednesday marked the end of a stretch in which the Royals played 26 games in 25 days, including two doubleheaders. As the calendar flips and they enter June, Kansas City is desperate to turn things around, after going 9-20 last month — matching the second-most losses in the month of May in franchise history, (they went 8-21 in May of 2006).
Right now, Kansas City is staring at a 100-loss season if things don’t turn around in year No. 5 of their rebuild. While the organization expected ups and downs this year, it also expected to improve. Two months into the season, the results show a different story.
“We’ve got to get better. That’s all there is to it,” Matheny said. “That’s us collectively. Each guy, do your…