"Once in a lifetime, that's for sure," Merrifield said.
The rendezvous with Brooks was arranged by Royals director of team travel Jeff Davenport. To start with, the players sat and watched the concert at the Sprint Center in the third row.
Then about three-fourths of the way through the concert, the group headed backstage. And then when Brooks started playing "Friends in Low Places" -- a former sixth-inning anthem at Kauffman Stadium -- the group headed on stage armed with T-shirt launchers.
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