“Hillman delivers on-feild lecture to players over sloppy base-running despite victory.” That was the title of the article found in the Kansas City Star today. Can this be? A coach that coaches. Players responding to the coaching. It has been a while since we have seen anything like this at Royals Spring Training. Even after Ryan Shealy just hit a game ending home run to put the Kansas City Royals up 4-3 over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Surprise Field, on Thursday, Coach Hillman decided that there was some things that he needed to get off his chest. These are the types of talks in the big leagues that take place in the club house, or behind closed doors. Not this. He met with the team out on the field after the game (which was just won in dramatic fashion). He went over some fundamental base running tactics, and offered some solutions to the sloppy base-running that he has seen over the last couple of days. Most players said something to the fact of remembering these types of things happening in college, or when they were young, but never in the majors. And that is probably why Hillman did it that way. To get their attention. Every team is different, and maybe this team needed that to move on. Either way you look at it, these are the types of things that all Royals fans should be happy to see. Getting back to the fundamentals of baseball, which the Royals have been lacking for years.