Sports Illustrated | Emma Baccellieri: Monday night’s nearly five-hour extravaganza between the Yankees and Royals was an excruciating, exhilarating, exhausting affair. Records were broken, runs scored in the absurdest of fashions, and the most improbable names provided the most telling contributions. After such a sluggish, uneventful start, the middle-to-late innings were a rollercoaster of feelings, with each successive peak and dip of emotion more intense than the last. Every time the Yankees scored, the Royals would answer back in the bottom of the inning, to the point where no lead felt safe.
Well, for four consecutive innings, that was precisely the case.