The rain poured outside. How do you feel? “To have the opportunity to come back and do it again is better still”. This popular ticket exchange is offering their customer appreciation promo code ROYALS-WORLD-SERIES for added savings (full refund for any games not played). He’d earned that. Kenney gave Davis heat packs, stretches, and neural flossing to stay loose, but he couldn’t make time stop. A half hour went by.
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Kansas City shortstop Alcides Escobar was voted the ALCS MVP after going 11 for 23 (.478).
The 2015 National League champions have set their World Series rotation and will send out Matt Harvey for the team’s first World Series game in 15 years. He went 11-for-23 in the ALCS, which the Royals clinched after a Game 6 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
“I was definitely confused”, Cain said. In 1986, the Mets became the first expansion team to win a second World Series.
Yes, those 1-6 spots included three members of the Hall, two of them on the first ballot.
“We won our last World Series in “85, they won in ’86; how ironic is that?” Now, I wish I had thrown the ball home”. “That’s why I think we won”. They beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games in an NLDS, besting ace Zack Greinke, at Dodger Stadium, in Game 5. But haven’t baseball gurus and statistic wizards learned from the Royals of previous year?
This was a classic, a game they will remember here no matter what happens next week, or the next 100 years. “Don’t slow down. I’ll let you know'”. In general, managers don’t like pitchers to go back out after a delay of 40 minutes or so.
Five years later, both are All-Stars. One of the most exciting games in baseball history, Freese had a tying triple with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and a walkoff homer in the 11th. Along with a coach who knew exactly what to do.
“We were right on the edge of it”, Kenney said. A low-risk gamble who blossomed into one of the team’s two most trusted setup men.
Thanks largely to the murderer’s row above, and the fact that the Phillies had overachieved during the regular season (going worst to first, ) this series was pretty much expected to be an easy Blue Jays victory. This was easy to see coming. Donaldson whacked a grounder to third. That was the difference, though it will be the outstretched glove hand of a bearded fan that will take its place next to Jim Sundberg’s wind-aided triple in 1985 among the Blue Jays’ infamous post-season moments. Bautista fielded it cleanly and fired to second base, thinking that Hosmer might try to stretch the hit into a double. 386 with five extra-base hits in the playoffs after struggling at the plate all season. He struck out Josh Donaldson, got Jose Bautista on a fly to right and Edwin Encarnacion grounded to third.
Davis got out of the trouble, of course. The delay was, in Yost’s words, “a pain in the ass”.
“He’s a bit of a catalyst at the top of the order”, Yost said.
He allowed a leadoff single to Russell Martin, who was replaced by pinch runner Dalton Pompey who promptly stole second and third base with none out.
“I was just trying to empty the tank”, Davis said.
He was hoping that elusive first career playoff win as a starter would come Friday night at Kansas City. If his cutoff throw had of gone to first instead of second, is there a play at the plate? Zobrist walked and Lorenzo Cain hit a little squibber past the mound and reached on an infield single.
But that’s hard to do once in a game, let alone twice. Good hitters doing a few big things for their team. You’ve got to put them in situations where they’re going to have more success. Although they didn’t appear in the World Series, the 1993 Blue Jays also had Turner Ward and Shawn Green.
And then they had exactly what they wanted.
“My favorite player is Moustakas”.
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“Excited but I haven’t thought about that yet”, said Bautista. But it was a huge hit that (Alex) Rios got. Salvador Perez hit a fly to deep left that Revere made a great catch on as he hit the wall at the Royals bullpen.
