KANSAS CITY, MO. — Voters on Tuesday will decide whether to use sales-tax money to help build a new downtown ballpark for the Royals.
As far as Bailey Ober is concerned, they can blow up Kauffman Stadium right now.
That's sort of what the Royals did to him on Sunday. Salvador Perez, Kyle Isbel and Maikel Garcia each bashed an Ober pitch over the stadium walls, Bobby Witt Jr. and MJ Melendez both rifled pitches off those walls for extra bases, and Kansas City handed the Twins their first loss of the season, 11-0.
Ober recorded only four outs while giving up nine hits and a walk, good for eight Royals runs. It was the worst, and shortest, start of his major-league career — but reminiscent of his previous low point, which came in this same ballpark last July.
Ober surrendered six runs over four innings in that one, and now owns an ERA of 8.84 in this ballpark. The Royals, who managed to score only one run apiece in their first two games this season, are batting a collective .388 against the righthander in his five starts in this park, with a whopping 1.067 OPS.
It was the most lopsided loss for the Twins since a 13-2 battering in Philadelphia last August, and the worst shutout loss since the White Sox hammered them 13-0 in September 2022. And only once in their 55-year history have the Royals administered a bigger beating on the Twins, a 13-0 blowout here on Aug. 5, 2013.
Royals righthander Brady Singer didn't need all the help, because the Twins could do little against him. Singer gave up only three hits — oddly, all three were doubles, by Carlos Santana, Alex Kirilloff and Matt Wallner — but the Twins never advanced a runner as far as third base against him.
The rout started slowly for Ober, who retired Garcia on a groundout before allowing Witt and Pasquantino to single.
Then came the pitch that set a tone for the day, a 2-2 changeup that Salvador Perez launched into the Twins' bullpen in left field. It was Perez's 33rd career home run against the Twins, more than any other active player.
Ober escaped the inning without any more runs, but things got ugly in the second. Isbel opened the inning by pulling another changeup into the Royals' bullpen in right, and Garcia made it back-to-back homers by launching a fastball into the fountains in left field.
Witt then hit a ball off the center field wall, just out of Austin Martin's reach, and easily made it to third with a triple. Ober steadied himself by striking out Pasquantino, but Perez grounded a single through the drawn-in infield to score Witt. When Melendez hit the wall with a double, Ober's day was done after just 53 pitches.
Kyle Funderburk, Daniel Duarte, Cole Sands and Jay Jackson each made their 2024 debuts in relief of Ober, with Funderburk giving up three hits and a pair of runs including Witt's first home run of the season, and Sands giving up a solo blast by Melendez.
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