Pedro Martínez Blasts Royals Manager Ned Yost

Somehow, someway the Kansas City Royals triumphed over the Oakland Athletics in perhaps the best Wild Card game of all time—no thanks to manager Ned Yost. Yost “Yosted” his own team on multiple occasions throughout the night, sacrifice bunting as early as the third inning—and three more times as the night rolled along—because hey, if you can gift pitchers like Jon Lester free outs, you just have to. But Yost’s penchant for sacrifice bunting was just the beginning, as he brought out a new, astounding level of stupid in the sixth inning—with his club up 3-2—by bringing out rookie starting pitcher Yordano Ventura with two Athletic base runners on, and no outs.