They gave them Crown Club premium seats behind home plate for games this season.
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“He was there with us”, Amy said that night.
Keuchel started on Tuesday night against the Yankees in the Wild Card game, so most likely he will not get his turn to throw again until the series moves to Houston in Game 3. Fast forward 30 years, and they have the chance to revive 1985.
With a 3-0 victory on Tuesday, the Houston Astros defeated the New York Yankees in the American League Wild Card game and advance to the AL Division Series. That being said, having lived in both Kansas City and Houston, I am hereby declaring myself an expert on the topic of comparing these two cities, and going to say this: despite many differences, the cities are more alike than one might think.
Meanwhile, Ventura has worked hard this season, and if he can put on a top performance he could swing things the Royals’ way.
Here’s a look at how the Royals have fared against the Astros this past season.
Draped in fashion of Royal blue, caps bobbing up and down in a sea of fans, they lined up Grand Avenue and wrapped around 13th Street to squeeze into the noon rally at The Power & Light District Wednesday. McHugh, a 28-year-old righthander the Astros claimed off waivers two winters ago, won 19 games this season and posted a 3.89 ERA. The Dodgers have the home field advantage and will be home for three of the five games if it makes it that far. General manager Dayton Moore placed an emphasis on solid starting pitching, a tough bullpen and the kind of speedy, stingy defense that is in many ways a throwback to a bygone era, when teams had to scratch out runs. McHugh did not start any of them, but he tossed seven shutout innings against them in May 2014. That doesn’t include Carlos Gomez, who hit four after his trade to Houston and rocked a fourth-inning solo home run off Masahiro Tanaka in the wild-card game. Cain was fourth in the AL in wins-above replacement (WAR) behind the Angels’ Mike Trout, Blue Jays’ Josh Donaldson and the Rays’ Kevin Kiermaier….
The Royals had a postseason absence much longer than that. McHugh will start Game 1 on Thursday and Kazmir will start Friday.
After ending a 29-year postseason drought, the plucky bunch of youngsters swept all the way to the World Series, where they fell in seven games to the Giants.
The Royals’ style of play fits perfectly in their pitcher-friendly stadium, with a huge outfield that only they have the athletes to cover. Yordano Ventura gets the nod in Game 1 and has been the Royals best pitcher since they acquired Johnny Cueto at the end of July.
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So now we wait and see: Can the Astros unseat the previous Cinderella? “Your work speaks for itself,” said Astros GM Jeff Luhnow after last night’s win. “There’s always critics along the way if you’re trying to do something different or something unique”.
