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The Royals have a very back breaking style of play. Any time you lose to them, it just makes you look bad, due to how good they are. Not only is the offence disciplined and consistent, where they make the pitcher work for EVERY OUT, but they put the ball in play and make the defence work for every out.
On top of that, for every team, it's a race to the sixth inning. Not just to be winning, and have a lead, but to have a substantial lead so you don't have the battle against their bullpen. Blown leads don't mean so much when you aren't up against an almost 100 per cent SHUT DOWN bullpen where you just can't get runs off of them.
So Vito, the Mets were over matched. It hurts to blow games, but they hadn't played a team like Kansas City, who are just down dirty battle tested dogs. Kansas City is MLBs wake up call. Starting from shattering Houston's rallying cry, to winning a nice little series against the Jays, where both teams shined but KC was clearly the better team to just breaking the Mets' backs from game one by just grinding.
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