This is not unlike predicting the rest of the movie based on the first part of the opening credits, but the most important part of the second Royals game of the season may have been the ninth inning. By then, they were already down in a game they would soon lose.
That’s when Joakim Soria came in, needing just 13 pitches for three convincing outs, each earned on a different pitch — slider, changeup and fastball. If there was any worry about Soria’s rocky season debut on Sunday — and there shouldn’t have been, but if there was — then maybe this can calm those frivolous fears.