Hours after he hit his first career home run in his first career game, a baseball sat on the top shelf of Royals prospect Ryan O’Hearn’s locker in the visiting clubhouse at Guaranteed Rate Field Tuesday night.
Handwritten across the front, in between the seams, were the words “Bryan O’Hearn 1st (homer).”
The ball was displayed proudly, although it was not the one O’Hearn had roped 359 feet into the Craft Kave at right field for his first career hit in the Royals’ 4-2 win over the White Sox. This one was a fake conjured by reliever Brandon Maurer.