Bobby Witt Jr. was the hero yet again in yesterday’s comeback win:
That’s when Witt lined the first pitch he saw from Marlins reliever Huascar Brazoban out to the center-field wall. Witt was thinking triple out of the box — quite literally after his first step, he said — and he made it from home to third in 11.12 seconds, electrifying the Royals’ dugout and the crowd at Kauffman Stadium with his eighth triple of the year.
“He’s that spark plug for us,” third baseman Nick Loftin said.
What followed was — finally — some offensive momentum for the Royals.