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Royals breakout slugger skillfully trolls Yankees, Carlos Rodón after ALDS win
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Royals breakout slugger skillfully trolls Yankees, Carlos Rodón after ALDS win

The American League Division Series between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees is already getting exciting, and it’s only been two games.

After the Yankees went back and forth in Game 1 on Saturday night, the Royals evened things up on Monday with a comfortable 4-2 win in the Bronx. They scored all four runs in the fourth inning off Yankees starter Carlos Rodón, abruptly ending a start that had begun dominantly for the left-hander.

The spark for Kansas City’s lineup Monday was, surprisingly, third baseman Maikel Garcia, whom manager Matt Quatraro moved into the leadoff position because there was a left-hander on the mound. Garcia went 4-for-5, including a key RBI single, and added a stolen base on the night.

After a regular season in which he hit .231 with an abysmal .281 on-base percentage, it was refreshing to see Garcia step up to the plate when his team needed it most. The speedster has often shown the ability to hit the ball hard, but no one expected him to show up with lasers in the Bronx.

However, as it turns out, Garcia saved his final shot of the night for social media.

Garcia was responding to a video from content creator Jimmy O’Brien, better known as “Jomboy,” that shows Rodón’s increasingly boisterous celebration scenes after striking out the team in the first inning. He quoted the video on Twitter by simply saying, “Don’t celebrate too soon” and adding a skull emoji.

Garcia wasn’t finished that evening either. He added another tweet that simply said, “We fear no one.” Royals fans (and perhaps some Yankees haters too) loved both tweets, totaling over 13,000 likes on the first tweet and 4,700 on the second (numbers from late Tuesday morning).

For Garcia, it was well-deserved gloating after the best night of his young career, and he and the Royals enter the day off with full momentum before the series resumes in Kansas City. But you have to be careful not to get too high.

The playoffs are a roller coaster ride, and the Royals haven’t experienced these highs and lows often compared to their competition. You have to be prepared for anything when the lights come on Wednesday night.

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