First-year Kansas University football coach David Beaty threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Sunday night’s Kansas City Royals-California Angels game at Kauffman Stadium. It was “KU Night” at Kauffman.

“What an honor to be here, really cool getting out there throwing that first pitch out,” Beaty said, joining the radio booth with Denny Matthews and Steve Stewart in the third inning.

“As soon as I threw that pitch, I went and talked to ‘Moose’ (Mike Moustakas) and (Eric) Hosmer. Both those guys have given me commitments to come play for us,” Beaty joked.

Of preseason practices, Beaty said: “They’ve gone really well. We obviously have a lot to work on. We have a lot of new players — 33 new faces in there. We’re trying to get those guys trained as quickly as we can and figure who is going to be on that bus. Two deep is very important, and we’re starting to narrow that down right now.”