KC Royals News: Gregg Zaun And Drama

KC Royals news focuses on the benches clearing incident in Toronto and how Gregg Zaun made his opinions known on Yordano Ventura’s attitude.

The Kansas City Royals continued to live up to their bad boys of baseball name when the benches cleared in Toronto this past weekend against the Blue Jays. Things started when Edinson Volquez hit Josh Donaldson with a pitch in the first inning. Later, Ryan Madson hit Troy Tulowitski.

Neither pitcher was ejected and not trying to be biased here, but both looked accidental.

Aaron Sanchez then went on to hit Alcides Escobar and was immediately ejected from the game, which caused the benches to clear. The drama after the game began when Jose Bautista said he didn’t respect Ned Yost, which then sent Yordano Ventura into a tweeting tailspin. Ventura since deleted the tweets, which were in another language (and translated by someone).

So then Gregg Zaun jumped into the picture, and completely called out Ventura, telling him “stop writing cheques you can’t cash”. Needless to say, Royals fans are not fond of Zaun.

Here’s what’s trending throughout Fansided.com.

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Yordano Ventura tweets apology to Toronto’s Jose Bautista for earlier deleted tweets [Pete Grathoff, The Kansas City Star]

"Ventura tweeted to Bautista. It was a message that required three tweets, all of which Ventura quickly deleted. But, of course, that doesn’t mean the tweets were never to be seen again."

WATCH: Benches clear in Blue Jays-Royals, Pirates-Reds games [Mike Axisa, CBS Sports]

"The Royals-Blue Jays series this weekend has been very intense with a postseason-like atmosphere. Four batters were hit with pitches in the first three games of the series, but it’s worth noting the Jays did the plunking — three of those four were Royals, including two Saturday."

Blue Jays’ TV analyst Gregg Zaun rips into Royals’ Yordano Ventura [Pete Grathoff, The Kansas City Star]

"Although Bautista was hardly complimentary, it was much nicer than the rant by former Royals catcher Gregg Zaun, who is an analyst at Rogers Sportsnet.Zaun defended Bautista and ripped into Ventura, saying among other things: “Stop running your mouth, kid. We all know what you’re about … .”"

Blue Jays Analyst Gregg Zaun Went on a WWE-Style Rant Against Yordano Ventura [Mike Cardillo, The Big Lead]

"Sportsnet pregame analyst Gregg Zaun, a former journeyman Major League catcher, ensured that this story isn’t going away with a WWE-style rant lobbed at Ventura for “running his mouth.” Zaun did offer some salient critiques, most notably that it’s a lot easier for Ventura to stir the pot with 100 mph fastballs when pitchers don’t have to bat in the American League. He also mentioned the only reason Ventura isn’t in the minors is because Jason Vargas blew out his elbow."

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