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Those series against Toronto and Boston were an ambush. At the time you had momentum and needed a bit more, you had a 6-game losing streak, then later lost 4 in a row to Texas, the team you needed to beat.
It's a helpless feeling when the pitching's inconsistent and exhausted and the hitting just isn't quite there. Toronto is very good. The Blue Jays were probably the best team in all of baseball in 1985, in real life, and OOTP makes them even stronger. The system has no way of figuring in the 1985 Royals' strengths because they got so much done on grit, luck and a legendary performance from George Brett. In fact, the Royals had more talent in 1988 and 1989 than in 1985, but not enough to catch the runaway Oakland Athletics.
You're coming up on the stretch of games where the real-life Royals played their best baseball: a 13-2 binge in early September against Chicago, Milwaukee, California and Oakland. Then again, the real-life Royals went 7-5 against Toronto in the regular season.
Texas and Minnesota aren't that good. They are houses built on stilts and could collapse anytime. If you can scratch and claw your way to .500, you might find yourself in better shape than you think.
Fingers crossed!
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