NEW YORK
As a counterpoint to New York’s Noah Syndergaard foreshadowing his fling toward Alcides Escobar’s head Friday by suggesting he held a trick up his sleeve, Royals manager Ned Yost on Saturday submitted that in Game 4 of the World Series, the Royals had contrived “a few tricks up our sleeves, too.”
Yost deflected the ominous undercurrent of the statement when he denied he meant the Royals intended to respond in kind by throwing at or near the Mets.
Which left open to interpretation just what that sleight of hand might come to entail, and it was no more evident by mid-game.