The baseball died somewhere along the warning track Friday, vexing Royals hitter Jorge Bonifacio and his manager. Bonifacio had put a charge into a baseball, only to see it fall a few feet shy of changing the outcome of a game.
A day later, on Saturday afternoon, Bonifacio got just enough.
And that was more than plenty for Danny Duffy.
Bonifacio skied his first homer of the season into the White Sox bullpen at Guaranteed Rate Field, the support of a brilliant outing from Duffy in the Royals’ 5-0 win Saturday in Chicago.