The Kansas City Royals are feeling it right now, in all aspects of the game.
The Royals are red-hot and making a claim to be the best team in baseball. The reigning American League champions have won four in a row, seven of 10 and are now 61-38, a whole nine games ahead of Minnesota in the American League Central.
They’re also making some highlight-reel plays, including an unbelievable putout Tuesday night against the Cleveland Indians. Michael Brantley smoked a hard ground ball up the middle, which is where Omar Infante ranged to his right to glove the hot shot. Then, Infante flipped the ball with his glove to shortstop Alcides Escobar who turned and fired an absolute bullet to first base to get Brantley.
The old 4-6-3 single-out putout at first, if you’re scoring at home.
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That led to the understatement of the year from Royals manager Ned Yost.
“Definitely a web gem,” Yost told reporters, per MLB.com.
Uh, yeah, Ned. We’d say so.
