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Box Score Banter: Keep Riding:

It’s a mixture of incompetence and misfortune and torpor, a malaise that hollows out a creature’s identity and takes the body as its own.

You go on a six-game winning streak, or to be more accurate play two teams that are willing to go on three-game losing streaks, and you invent a rally cactus or some doubles celebration that (unlike all the other ones) is actually organic and interesting. Or, sometimes, the season just ends.

Out of nowhere, Bubic went from busted prospect and the Chris Kirkpatrick of Kansas City’s lost Baby Aces to a lights-out reliever. And now, out of nowhere, he’s gone from that to one of the best starters in all of baseball.