<table> </table> As the Royals slide back to being the worst team in baseball, there is still rarely a dull moment at Kauffman Stadium.</p><p>Excitement broke out after the game when Texas&#8217; fiery outfielder Milton Bradley, who was the designated hitter Wednesday, was upset by some words he heard from Royals television announcer Ryan Lefebvre and made a dash up to the fourth floor to confront Lefebvre.</p><p>As Bradley was coming down the stairs, he was flanked by Rangers general manager Jon Daniels.</p><p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t hurt anybody,&#8221; Bradley said. &#8220;I just wanted to introduce myself. Maybe he doesn&#8217;t know who I am.&#8221;</p><p>Bradley was unable to reach Lefebvre, but he was still emotional about it a few minutes later.</p><p>Then in the clubhouse, as outfielder David Murphy was answering questions, Bradley was pacing back and forth, talking about how, &#8220;I&#8217;m still leading the league after being in a hospital with nobody giving me a chance.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m tired of people breaking me down. All I want to do is play baseball, that&#8217;s it. Raise my family, raise my sons, so they&#8217;ve got a better life than me. I&#8217;m strong but I&#8217;m not that strong, you know? It wears on me.&#8221;</p><p>Lefebvre said all he was doing was complimenting Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton and how he turned his life around.</p><p>&#8220;He (Hamilton) has been accountable for his mistakes and how the baseball world are rooting for him, and Frank (White) and I were having a conversation about it&#8217;s a shame that it doesn&#8217;t appear Milton Bradley has done the same thing in his life.</p><p>&#8220;From what I remember of the conversation we were complimenting Josh Hamilton and not singling out Milton Bradley. We also spent a lot of time complimenting Milton Bradley, but that&#8217;s not what he heard when he was in the clubhouse.&#8221;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Shining in the sun</span></strong></p><p>It seems just about every time Brian Bannister makes a start, it&#8217;s under the sun.</p><p>Bannister will make his eighth daytime start today in the final game of a three-game series. This will be Bannister&#8217;s third straight start in the afternoon.</p><p>&#8220;It has been crazy,&#8221; Bannister said. &#8220;I know I have a couple of more coming up. It always seems to work that way. It worked that way for me in the minor leagues. I don&#8217;t know how it happens but I always seem to pitch in day games.&#8221;</p><p>Bannister has had plenty of success this season pitching during the daytime. Bannister, 5-6 overall, is 5-1 with a 3.00 ERA in the daytime.</p><p>Bannister, though, faltered a little in his last start on a hot Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. The Royals built a 5-1 lead, but Bannister gave up four runs and five hits in the fourth and wound up getting a no-decision.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Sore point for Soria?</span></strong></p><p>One of the reasons Royals manager Trey Hillman didn&#8217;t use Joakim Soria on Tuesday was because he said Soria experienced some tightness in his backside.</p><p>When Hillman was asked about Soria&#8217;s condition 3 hours before game time Wednesday, Hillman said he hadn&#8217;t talked to Soria about it. When Soria was asked about the tightness 90 minutes later, he said you have to talk to Hillman about it.</p><p>As it turned out, Soria wasn&#8217;t going to be used in Wednesday&#8217;s game because of the tightness.