With Madison Bumgarner due on the mound Wednesday evening at Kauffman Stadium, the flashbacks to the 2014 World Series were impossible to avoid.
Especially when they’re plastered on the clubhouse TV.
The highlights of the series — which Bumgarner finished with five scoreless innings in the deciding Game 7, clinching the Giants’ third championship in five seasons — played on loop inside the Royals locker room before Wednesday’s game.
It wasn’t some sort of motivational ploy. Rather, the TVs traditionally play footage of the day’s opposing starting pitcher as a last-minute scouting report. The screens face the hitters’ lockers.