When it comes to the Kansas City running game, Royals manager Ned Yost thinks the Giants' grounds crew are being sticks in the mud.

The area around first base appeared to be a bit mucky for Game 3 of the World Series on Friday night. The Royals appeared to conclude the dirt was hosed down with extra vigor.

"Maybe the groundskeeper just was looking at all the Royals fans up in the corner there and just forgot," Yost said Saturday. "I thought it was a little extra wet around first. When Moose (Mike Moustakas) or somebody got on -- it might have been Moose -- and he dove back into first base and he came up extremely muddy, I thought that it was a little damper than normal, yeah."

Giants manager Bruce Bochy claimed not to notice any unusual dampening.