Let’s start with a disclaimer: The compelling moments have been fleeting, few and far between for the 2023 Royals. Through Sunday, after all, they’d won 18 times in 59 games and generally given fans far more reason to look away than follow along day by day. Calling it an “evaluation season” doesn’t diminish the agony of all this defeat. Just the same, well, the Royals actually will be playing…