"Our game plan today was to stay away from Madson," Yost said following a 3-1 win over the Twins on Friday night. "He's pitched four out of six days. We wanted to make sure we weren't overdoing it with him ... But once we took the lead, I was like, 'Just go ahead and to do it.'"
Tied 1-1, the Royals punched across two runs in the eighth. And Yost was without Luke Hochevar and Kelvin Herrera, who were unavailable because of workloads.
"He called down and asked, and I said I felt fine," Madson said.