The aesthetic of a baseball franchise cannot be distilled into one game or one inning or even one moment. Not entirely, of course. The game of baseball is too complex for these kind of generalities.
But if you were attempting to explain the philosophy of the Royals under general manager Dayton Moore, you could do a lot worse than the bottom of the fifth inning here on Saturday night at a sold-out Kauffman Stadium.
In a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers — a win in which franchise cornerstone Eric Hosmer set a career high in homers and homegrown starter Yordano Ventura recorded a quality start — the most Royal moment of the evening was a three-batter sequence involving turbo speed and timely hitting.