Opening day for Major League Baseball is here in April this year after labor negotiations caused a late start to the 2022 season.
At least for the time being, just across the way from the Kansas City Chiefs in the Truman Sports Complex, the Kansas City Royals play at Kauffman Stadium. The two teams have long supported each other in their endeavors and that’s not changing this MLB season. In what has become somewhat of a tradition, the Chiefs sent over a contingent to take in the game on opening day as the Royals face the Cleveland Guardians at The K.
This year it was Chiefs HC Andy Reid, GM Brett Veach and president Mark Donovan taking in the game alongside Royals majority owner John Sherman and Senior VP Adam Sachs. The team’s Twitter page shared a picture of everyone posing together in a suite:
The squad is all here on #OpeningDay! pic.twitter.com/sUiGjIT9FS
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) April 7, 2022
Patrick Mahomes, a part-owner of the Royals, wasn’t in attendance for this year’s opening day as he was last year. He remains in Tyler, Texas working with his trainer Bobby Stroupe and his teammates getting some serious offseason training in. He did acknowledge opening day earlier on Thursday, though.
Let’s go!! @Royals
— Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) April 7, 2022
Today was a particularly special day for the Royals, who welcomed back pitcher Zack Greinke, the former No. 6 overall pick in the 2002 MLB draft. Greinke was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers in 2010, in a trade that would help set up the Royals’ 2015 World Series win. There’s also Bobby Witt Jr., the MLB’s No. 1 overall prospect, who is making his big league debut. Perhaps the infusion of Greinke’s wisdom and Witt’s youth will be enough to get the Royals back to the World Series again.
