The headline above is not a metaphor or whatever, as much as a scorched scoreboard is apt for a hard dinger hit off of it.
It’s literally what happened: Kansas City Royals outfielder Edward Olivares stepped to the plate against Chad Kuhl of the Washington Nationals and drove a pitch a whopping 452 feet. He hit it into the Kauffman Stadium scoreboard, knocking out some of the lights on it.
