Dayton Moore is on the phone when he opens the door to his 26th floor hotel room here to let you in. The Royals general manager keeps his iPhone in a World Series logo case and it has buzzed for most of the day, except the two hours or so he was on a Delta flight from Kansas City.
Yordano Ventura, the supernaturally talented Royals pitcher, died when he lost control of the white Jeep he was driving in his native Dominican Republic the night before.
He is only four hours or so into processing all of this, so the emotions are still forming, but already they've been strong — sadness, reflection, a few smiles about the good times, and a touch of anger that a young life is over at 25, a young girl now without a father.