Tonight Ned Yost will be inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame. This, of course, wasn’t always a sure thing. People were calling for him to be fired as late as September 2014. Later, even, as Yost’s demise appeared inevitable after he summoned Yordano Ventura to enter the game as a reliever. Ventura promptly gave up the lead before Yost pulled him and substituted in more traditional, and very successful, reliever Kelvin Herrera to stop the bleeding.
Ultimately, the Royals came back to win that game, and eventually the 2015 World Series. Yost was eventually granted an opportunity very few managers ever get.