Last Monday wasn’t Opening Day. Not in Kansas City, anyway.
For Royals fans, the real Opening Day arrives today, with a scheduled 3:15 p.m. game against the Oakland Athletics at Kauffman Stadium.
The gates to the Truman Sports Complex are open, the birds are chirping under sunny skies and unofficial pregame festivities are underway in the parking lots around the K.
Here are a few key things to know as you look forward to first pitch, whether you’re at the K or wishing you could be:
REMEMBERING NO. 30
There won’t be a dry eye in the joint when Marisol Hernandez, mother of late Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura, throws out the first pitch alongside her father and Yordano’s granddad, Raul Hernandez.