MLB scoring changes were good news for Royals’ Kris Bubic but not Bobby Witt Jr.
Royals left-hander Kris Bubic left the Kauffman Stadium field following his outing Sunday against the Orioles having allowed an earned run for the first time this season.
It was an ugly run, too.
The Orioles’ Ryan Mountcastle hit a triple that eluded Royals right fielder Hunter Renfroe. Two outs later, Mountcastle scored on a wild pitch by Bubic.
That gave Bubic a 0.71 ERA, which is incredibly good.
But Bubic’s ERA dropped to an MLB-best 0.00* on Wednesday thanks to a scoring change by the league. It was one of three scoring changes from Sunday’s game, which the Royals won 4-1.
*He’s tied with Atlanta’s Spencer Schwellenbach
MLB changed Mountcastle’s triple into a three-base error by Renfroe.
That error meant the Mountcastle run was unearned and Bubic now has a 0.00 ERA through his two starts.
“Our coaching staff submitted that,” Bubic said. “They told me after the game on Sunday that they were going to do that, but I didn’t really think anything of it. I didn’t think it was going to get overturned, to be honest. It was a tough play.
“I’m not going to complain about it, but I think sometimes when the coaches feel a certain way about something, I know you’ve got to submit any appeals to scoring changes within like 24 hours. It’s pretty quick. It’s cool to see, but at the end of the day, we still won the game. Whatever kind of decision was going to be made there was not really going to make a huge difference to me.”
Not a wild pitch
Turns out Bubic didn’t throw a wild pitch on Sunday. MLB changed that to a passed ball by on Royals catcher Freddy Fermin.
Bobby Witt Jr. loses triple
A big story from Sunday’s game was Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. falling just short of hitting for the cycle. Witt didn’t get the home run but had a single, double and triple.
Or so we thought.
MLB ruled the triple was instead a three-base error by Baltimore’s Jorge Mateo, and hoo-boy, wouldn’t that have been a tough way to lose a cycle?
This story was originally published April 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM.
