Bat flips, beanballs, and brouhahas

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesYou’d think the Royals and the White Sox were two of the Five Families.

Every year, at some point these two teams will go to the mattresses. You enter the season not knowing who the main protagonists will be (especially now that Chris Sale is in Boston) but you do know there will be kerfuffles.

They managed to play five and a half games this year before the benches cleared. By now, you are aware of how it went down: Tim Anderson barreled one off Brad Keller and celebrated not by flipping the bat, rather by throwing it. He treated his lumber not as if it was partially responsible for launching a baseball 418 feet, but as if he couldn’t make contact at all.…