Baseball Novelty, from Ken Drees
I just saw the Royals (getting swept by the Indians) put in their outfielder to pitch the ninth to save what is left of a depleted pen.
The pitching was akin to batting practice, the tribe went quickly, and the pitcher got a Royals' standing ovation, the only pitcher all weekend to get one.
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It seems like the batters may have been a bit taken out of their element by the novelty, maybe the overconfident factor at work.
Maybe the Royals' skipper scored a tiny tiny mental victory here to lift the team for the next series.