KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Indianola Independent Advocate had the scoop on Duncan Davitt’s call-up to the White Sox.One of the central Iowa newspaper’s owners got a tip straight from the source on Wednesday, hardly believed it — and soon broke down in tears, the 26-year-old pitcher reported.Of course, publisher Amy Duncan couldn’t be closer to the story. Davitt’s her son, not to mention a sports columnist for the family-owned newspaper.“My mom cried. She thought I was joking at first, which, I don’t what that’s about,” Davitt, the budding write-hander — er, right-hander — joked from the other side of the notebook Thursday in the visitors’ clubhouse at Kauffman StadiumRoyals games were a regular destination for Davitt while growing up some three hours away in Indianola, a city of about 16,000 in the Des Moines area. He covers prep sports there in the offseason for the paper owned and operated by his parents.But Davitt himself was the story Thursday, arriving in Kansas City as a big-leaguer awaiting his major league debut.“My chest didn’t start getting tight until I started walking in. It started settling in around them,” said Davitt, who was acquired by the Sox last summer in the Adrian Houser trade. “I walked out, took a look at the field from a little bit of a different perspective. It was kind of a whirlwind.” Duncan DavittBrynn Anderson/AP The story’s not written yet on what Davitt, the Sox’ 30th-ranked prospect per MLB Pipeline, can bring to a beleaguered pitching staff…
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