Here is how the Royals plan on fixing video board that was broken by home-run ball
This baseball did some damage — literally.
Royals outfielder Edward Olivares crushed a pitch during Sunday’s comeback win over the Nationals, and it had traveled an estimated 452 feet before hitting the team’s Hall of Fame at Kauffman Stadium.
The ball smashed the video board on the Hall of Fame, blacking out multiple panels. Most of those panels came back on, with the exception of the one which was impacted by the ball.
It remained black and was smoldering.
“The reason for the smoke was that each panel has a power supply, and the ball happened to hit right on that power supply,” Sharita Hutton, the Royals’ Senior Director of Communication Strategy, wrote in an email. “That is also why a set of panels immediately below the damaged one went out temporarily.”
Hutton said repairs on the video board began Tuesday and it actually is under warranty. So Olivares, who said he wasn’t sorry about breaking the video board, didn’t end up costing the team any money.
“The board is made up of small modular panels and there was a single panel damaged by the ball,” wrote Hutton, who added the fix should not take long.
That means fans coming to Kauffman Stadium for this weekend’s series against the Colorado Rockies won’t notice anything amiss with the video board.
That is, unless Olivares strikes again.
