KC Royals manager Ned Yost and shortstop Adalberto Mondesi react to the team's 5-4 loss in 10 innings to the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium on April 2, 2019. By
Adalberto Mondesi’s bat caught the fastball on the barrel and the mechanics of a Major League Baseball game changed immediately. The ball went 104 miles per hour off his bat. That was actually the softest contact of his three hits, but the ball still zoomed more than 400 feet off the centerfield wall.
Byron Buxton misplayed the ball, but even so, Mondesi — who didn’t even run hard until he was more than halfway to first base — zipped around the bases in 15.