TORONTO
The iPhone sat on the top rung of Chris Young’s locker on Tuesday night, so he pulled it down and unlocked it. He found 68 text messages congratulating him on his first postseason start in nine years, part of Kansas City’s 14-2 trouncing of the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. The lone missing voice was the one he heard in his head all afternoon.
Only three weeks removed from the death of his father, Charles Young, Chris Young vacillates between the ache of his loss and the commitment to honor his dad.