A few steps behind the Royals' dugout is the team’s indoor batting cage. The door to the batting cage is painted blue, made of metal and covered with dozens of dents; it looks like the hood of a car left out in a hail storm.
But those dents are right where they should be: away from the public eye.
If a player “snaps” — baseball slang for having a temper tantrum — it’s a good idea to leave the dugout. Wise major-leaguers don’t let TV cameras catch them smashing dugout water coolers with baseball bats; it’s a bad look that will get a guy on SportsCenter for all the wrong reasons.