The group of fans gathered at Up-Down in the Crossroads District gasped in awe and traded high-fives.
The Royals had just turned a jaw-dropping, inning-ending double play late in Tuesday’s win over the Detroit Tigers. Jorge Bonifacio chased down a fly ball in right field and lasered a throw down the right-field line; the ball found Eric Hosmer’s outstretched glove in foul territory to force out a Tigers runner who had strayed too far from first base.
Few could believe it, including Mark Van Baale, who was at the arcade bar for a Royals watch party organized by a group of Twitter users known as the Royals Twitter Family.