((HT: MLB.com))
The HQ has cone to appreciate what Ned Yost is doing- and all the crazy, borderline genius that goes with it...
And we're saying 11 in a row because they won the last three in the 1985 baseball championship, then have won the play-in game, the Division Series, and now the ALCS...
You know that this will be shown early on in the discussions of the roll the Kansas City Royals are on...
Ned Yost's genius has worked on multiple levels that include speed, stealing bases, and moving from station to station
It includes your number three hitter BUNTING OVER RUNNERS IN THE FIRST INNING!!!
And a pitching staff that, if you get to the seventh inning, has three relievers lock it down from there...
Enter Greg Holland...
Welcome to the last series of the year, Royals...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
ICYMI: Royals Magical Mystery Tour Continues--One Game from World Series
The Kansas City Royals are 7-0 in the American League Playoffs right now.
Yes, at the risk of jinxing their crazy ride, they've won seven straight games. And sometimes with some crazy finishes, sometimes with amazing plays and sometimes just by plain luck.
Tuesday night, the Royals beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-7 American League Championship Series.
They did it in large part with their pitching and defense Tuesday. Mike Moustakas made a crazy, lunging, diving over the dugout railings catch and Jerermy Guthrie along with 4 relievers combined to hold the Baltimore Bats in check.
Oddly, the winning run came on a 6th inning sacrifice fly by Billy Butler.
K.C will trot out Jason Vargas to try and clinch their World Series berth since the early 1980's, which ironically is roughly the last time the team was in the playoffs...
That game kicks off Wednesday afternoon...
Here are your Tuesday night highlights...
Moustakas's crazy catch:
And closer Greg Holland finishing the game;
Yes, at the risk of jinxing their crazy ride, they've won seven straight games. And sometimes with some crazy finishes, sometimes with amazing plays and sometimes just by plain luck.
Tuesday night, the Royals beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-7 American League Championship Series.
They did it in large part with their pitching and defense Tuesday. Mike Moustakas made a crazy, lunging, diving over the dugout railings catch and Jerermy Guthrie along with 4 relievers combined to hold the Baltimore Bats in check.
Oddly, the winning run came on a 6th inning sacrifice fly by Billy Butler.
K.C will trot out Jason Vargas to try and clinch their World Series berth since the early 1980's, which ironically is roughly the last time the team was in the playoffs...
That game kicks off Wednesday afternoon...
Here are your Tuesday night highlights...
Moustakas's crazy catch:
And closer Greg Holland finishing the game;
Monday, October 6, 2014
Magical Mystery Tour: KC Royals Win ALDS Over Angels
They don't have a "Big Budget" operation and until this season had not been in the Major League Baseball playoffs in almost 30-years.
But this year you can call them playoff winners.
The Kansas City Royals beat the Los Angeles Angels 8-3 Sunday night to finish their sweep of a team with a payroll nearly double of what theirs is.
6 Strong innings thrown by top starter James Shields, homers by Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer were enough to do the trick as 40,000 plus screaming Kansas City fans had cause celebre...
Kansas City moves on to face another surprise team in the American League Championship series, the Baltimore Orioles in a series that we might actually watch.
The final out, a rather fast fastball by Royals closer Greg Holland courtesy MLB.com:
But this year you can call them playoff winners.
The Kansas City Royals beat the Los Angeles Angels 8-3 Sunday night to finish their sweep of a team with a payroll nearly double of what theirs is.
6 Strong innings thrown by top starter James Shields, homers by Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer were enough to do the trick as 40,000 plus screaming Kansas City fans had cause celebre...
Kansas City moves on to face another surprise team in the American League Championship series, the Baltimore Orioles in a series that we might actually watch.
The final out, a rather fast fastball by Royals closer Greg Holland courtesy MLB.com:
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Royals Back In Post-Season For First Time Since '85
((HT: MLB.com))
The HQ just thought this was a cool happening last night...
The Kansas City Royals, with their win Friday night, clinched their first post-season bid in almost three decades.
Closer Greg Holland has been solid at the back all year long and, with a lot of blue in the crowd at Comiskey, the visotors got the win over the White Sox and made it to play one more game.
Here's Jeremy Guthrie firing up the other Royals once they clinched a spot in the post-season and got to bathe each other in the clubhouse.
MLB.com had some cool comparisons about the current roster with the last time the team was in:
In 1985, more than half of the Royals' current active roster had not yet been born. Yordano Ventura, DOB June 3, 1991, wasn't even a thought in his parents' minds. Lorde, the New Zealand songstress behind the team's somewhat unofficial anthem, wasn't born until 1996.
Wade Davis and Greg Holland were born in September and October of the Royals' last postseason year.
The wreck of the Titanic was discovered. The first Nintendo system was released in America, on which you played Super Mario for the first time. You bought "We Are the World" because you liked Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie. You read the inaugural strip of Calvin and Hobbes.
And that is just a small sample of it...
Congrats to y'all and whaddya want to bet the Braves might make the token play for their old assistant GM in the process...???
The HQ just thought this was a cool happening last night...
The Kansas City Royals, with their win Friday night, clinched their first post-season bid in almost three decades.
Closer Greg Holland has been solid at the back all year long and, with a lot of blue in the crowd at Comiskey, the visotors got the win over the White Sox and made it to play one more game.
Here's Jeremy Guthrie firing up the other Royals once they clinched a spot in the post-season and got to bathe each other in the clubhouse.
MLB.com had some cool comparisons about the current roster with the last time the team was in:
In 1985, more than half of the Royals' current active roster had not yet been born. Yordano Ventura, DOB June 3, 1991, wasn't even a thought in his parents' minds. Lorde, the New Zealand songstress behind the team's somewhat unofficial anthem, wasn't born until 1996.
Wade Davis and Greg Holland were born in September and October of the Royals' last postseason year.
The wreck of the Titanic was discovered. The first Nintendo system was released in America, on which you played Super Mario for the first time. You bought "We Are the World" because you liked Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie. You read the inaugural strip of Calvin and Hobbes.
And that is just a small sample of it...
Congrats to y'all and whaddya want to bet the Braves might make the token play for their old assistant GM in the process...???
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