Bobby Witt Jr. was 15 years old the last time Kauffman Stadium hosted playoff baseball, but he’s heard stories and seen videos of Kansas City Royals fans with postseason mode activated.

Witt is mired in an 0-for-10 skid in the American League Division Series against the Yankees, which returns to Kauffman Stadium on Wednesday night knotted at 1. It’s more of a reintroduction to playoff baseball in Kansas City, which hasn’t experienced it in nearly a decade.

From "Waterfalls" walk-ups to homers for cash to setting speed records, he delivers. "Bobby is our version of Patrick Mahomes,” his GM says.

As Bobby Witt Jr. talked to a room full of reporters at Yankee Stadium on Friday, a larger-than-life Derek Jeter, pictured in a blown-up Sports Illustrated cover hanging on the wall, smiled in the young shortstop’s direction.

Bobby Witt Jr’s first best-of-five MLB playoff series has been rough thus far: He is 0-for-10 in the ALDS against the New York Yankees.

NEW YORK — Bobby Witt Jr. sounded like a postseason vet as he fielded questions from reporters in the press conference room at Yankee Stadium on Friday. The 24-year-old was one sleep away from the biggest test of his young career — a showdown with the Yankees in his American League Division Series debut — and he was saying all the right things.

The New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Royals in Game 1 of the American League Division Series by the final score of 6-5 on Saturday night. In

Nobody was happy during the penultimate at-bat of the Yankees’ 6-5 win over the Royals in Game 1 of the ALDS. Yankees reliever Luke Weaver — and since the end of the season, the team’s closer — struck out Royals superstar Bobby Witt Jr.