The Royals may have missed the playoffs by a country mile, but their former players popped up in some key moments in Tuesday night’s National League Wild Card Game.
The Rockies won 2-1 in 13 innings thanks in part to former Royals closer Wade Davis working out of a jam in the eighth inning and preserving a tie. Davis was pitching to his batterymate from the deciding fifth game of the 2015 World Series: Drew Butera.
Butera came on as part of a double switch in the seventh inning and soon after was called for a rare catcher’s interference with two outs.