CLEVELAND
Omar Infante was banished to the bench because of his bat, because after five months of equivocating about him, the Royals could no longer justify playing him every day when he classified as the worst every-day hitter in baseball.
The beauty of this game — even in the final stages of a 162-game marathon that has sapped the energy of the Royals — is the possibility for redemption. All it requires is one chance at the plate, one swing, one connection between the barrel of a bat and the sweet spot of a baseball.