A trip to Kauffman Stadium isn’t naturally associated with a run-in with brand name talent. It’s instead managed to be frustrating in far different ways. But in a showdown of two decidedly scuffling offenses averaging under four runs per game, two of the Royals four 2024 All-Star reps broke the stalemate.
Any notions of a well-executed Bobby Witt Jr. containment plan were snuffed out by a first inning walk, the first of three times on base and leading to the first of two stolen bags on the evening. Witt singled to lead off the fourth, stole second and scored the first Royals run of the night when Maikel García poked a Shane Smith curveball at the knees through a drawn-in Chase Meidroth at short. And Witt drove in the second Royal run in the fifth, doubling a thigh-high Smith changeup into the right-center gap after Kyle Isbel led off the frame by push bunting his way on base like the Kansas City special days of old.
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