Kansas City, Mo. — Before the game, Spencer Torkelson stirred up a portion of Royals Nation with his half-serious response to a Twitter photo clearly showing Kansas City’s Monday night starter Jordan Lyles with a strip of sticky stuff on his left wrist.
“He’s 1-11,” he snarked, referencing Lyle’s won-loss record. “You can have it. Take it.”
That got a rise out of them, for sure, and he kept the needle in once the game started.
Torkelson blasted two home runs and knocked in five runs, nearly bailing the Tigers out of a five-run hole.