Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost called for four sacrifice bunts during his team’s wild-card win over the Oakland A’s on Tuesday night. Calling for that many bunts in today’s game is almost unheard of, but Yost likes bunting more than a lot of other managers. He apparently liked it during his play days as well.
RotoAnalysis.com shared a perfectly timed photo on Twitter after Tuesday night’s game that showed what Yost’s Topps baseball card looked like when he played for the Milwaukee Brewers in the early 1980s. Guess what he was doing in the photo. Yup, dropping down a bunt.
Yost made quite a few unpopular decisions during Kansas City’s improbable comeback — just ask Pedro Martinez what he thought about one of the pitching changes. I’m sure there were some who felt he should have bunted less, but it all worked out in the end. A win is a win, as they say.
