“Sirius” by The Alan Parsons Project was blasting inside the Royals’ clubhouse at Guaranteed Rate Field late Monday night following their 8-5 win over the White Sox ... when a lone voice cried out over the music.“YEAH, BOB!”“Sirius” was the Chicago Bulls’ anthem in the 1990s during their run to six NBA championships. Michael Jordan was the biggest star in basketball at that time, and it’s not hyperbole to say the Royals now have the best in their sport.Bobby Witt Jr. In a season of excellence that will have him in the running for an MVP award, Witt arguably had had his best game yet on Monday.“You gonna ask about Bobby?” Royals manager Matt Quatraro quipped at the start of his postgame news conference.Let’s start with Witt at the plate. He collected four hits, including a lead-flipping grand slam in the eighth inning.Witt was pumped as he celebrated that home run in the dugout.“Definitely fired up,” Witt said. “Anytime you take a lead like that against an in-division team, it’s a lot of fun.”Witt raised his batting average to .347, best in the majors, by going four for five with the homer and a double. During his 11game hitting streak, Witt is batting an absurd .546 with nine extra-base hits, 12 runs scored and 12 RBIs.After giving the Royals the lead in the eighth, he made sure they got the win with a pair of jaw-dropping defensive plays in the ninth.“That guy’s incredible,” Quatraro said. “Obviously, a go-ahead grand slam, you aren’t going to get any bigger than that. Then watching those defensive plays, there were so many things that he did so well tonight, it’s hard to really remember them all in the moment.”Right fielder Hunter Renfroe added: “Right now to me, he’s one of the best players in baseball and when he comes to bat with the bases loaded, you think something special’s gonna happen and obviously it did. It was pretty remarkable and fun to be a part of.”Seeing Witt come through in the clutch is no surprise to Renfroe, who is in his ninth season in the majors.“Any time you have a future MVP frontrunner at the plate,” Renfroe said, “(you expect something) to happen every single time he’s up there.“So when it doesn’t happen, you’re kind of like, ‘Oh man, what happened there?’ But it was fantastic to see that and he’s a special player ...
