Here’s what Adalberto Mondesi’s inside-the-park homer looked like from the upper deck
As The Star’s Sam Mellinger noted, shortstop Adalberto Mondesi didn’t sprint from the batter’s box on his inside-the-park home run in the Royals’ 5-4 loss to the Twins in 10 innings on Tuesday night.
Mondesi crushed a pitch from Minnesota left-hander Taylor Rogers with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning and the ball bounded off the center-field wall as the Twins’ Byron Buxton fell. For most players, not running hard out of the box might have meant stopping at third base.
But Mondesi scored standing up because he’s really fast.
Royals fan Micah Fries was sitting with his family in the upper deck at Kauffman Stadium and recorded Mondesi’s plate appearance, so he caught the whole scene. Here is what Fries shared on Twitter:
Here is what television viewers saw on Fox Sports Kansas City:
This story was originally published April 3, 2019 at 8:27 AM.
