Judging the Royals  A gutsy win by the Royals  Updated:
2013-08-04T00:31:42Z   The Kansas City Star  Here’s the reason
hitters continue to look for fastballs in fastball counts:
sometimes they get one. Justin Maxwell led off the 12th inning
just looking to get on base. The count went to 3-0 and Maxwell
took a fastball down the middle to move the count to 3-1, which
put him in another fastball count. The next fastball was
slightly up in the zone so Maxwell took that one, too. With the
count 3-2 Maxwell was still in a fastball count—pitcher David
Aardsma didn’t want to walk the leadoff batter in a tie game, so
he threw Maxwell another fastball.  Maxwell turned on it and hit
it out of the park. The Royals took a 4-3 lead, and with closer
Greg Holland in the pen, that was enough.  This was a big win in
a number of ways: the Royals lost a disappointing one Friday
night and when teams suffer a demoralizing loss, they sometimes
start to scuffle—one loss can turn into two or three. Fighting
back after allowing the Me