On a Saturday afternoon at Kauffman Stadium that almost seemed destined for extra innings, outfielder Jorge Soler became the latest victim of the Salvy Splash.
He’d barely had time to shake off the adrenaline that spiked his bloodstream when he strong-armed a one-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning that provided the Royals' lead in a 5-4 win over the A’s.
As the ice water ran down his back, Soler barely had had time to come to terms with having hit a homer at all.
"I don’t know how it happened," Soler said in Spanish.