After the Royals lost 3-2 to the Indians on Wednesday night, manager Ned Yost took a seat in the Kauffman Stadium interview room and chose not to waste time.
"Erratic," he said into the microphone.
Then he paused briefly. With a grin, he turned to Josh Vernier, a reporter for 610 Sports Radio, and said, "Your questions are the same every night, so I just went ahead and answered it."
The teasing offered a brief reprieve from the fact the Royals had just been swept in a three-game set for a second consecutive series. From the fact the offense, by way of Whit Merrifield in the eighth and Alex Gordon in the ninth, tallied late doubles on Wednesday but did nothing with them.