Over a disconcerting and disorienting 24 hours, the Royals had dismissed Terry Bradshaw from his role as hitting coach (inconveniently after they’d amassed 26 runs in three games at Colorado) only to muster three runs in their next two games and sag to 12-22.
In the second of those, a 3-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday afternoon at Kauffman Stadium, the Royals struck out a season-high 14 times and were zero for 12 with runners in scoring position — jarring failures in the very areas of emphasis turning Bradshaw’s job over to Alec Zumwalt was intended to address.
Never mind that of course it will take some time for that change in voice and approach to resonate and that the shift from Bradshaw had been a more cumulative matter.
