Kansas City, Missouri - somewhere in the last moments of September seems clear now, the baseball gods dropped a new law in the official rule book for Major League Baseball: not allowed Kansas City Royals to lose.
It must have been repenting enough - on the line without an epic postseason appearance - from the World Series in 1985 to the American League wild card game on 30 September Now, the Royals always win. Officially, after beating the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 on Tuesday, have not seen a better start to the postseason.
Any team and lapped ever more victories to start the postseason, the Royals can clinch the AL banner by defeating the Orioles in Game 4 of the AL Championship Series on Wednesday.
"None of this has really sunk in yet," said Eric Hosmer, and first baseman. And why do it? The idea of playing in the world championship seemed far-fetched for most of the season, and frankly unreasonable night wild card.
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Royals came to bat in the bottom of the eighth floor of the match, trailing 7-3 to Jon Lester and Oakland Athletics. Lester was shut out for eight innings on July 20 when the Royals were under .500 and reeling. He beat him twice in his next few starts.
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Alcides Escobar was the first man to face Leicester in the eighth that night. Singled. Before the end of the half, and had gone to Leicester, and the deficit was down to one run. Royals tied in the ninth - bloop single, sacrifice bunt, stolen base, a sacrifice fly - and won it in the 12th.
Suddenly, everything was possible.
", And this is the best game I played in my career now in Oakland and, being down four runs in the seventh round, Jon Lester monument and go back and win the game," said Escobar at Camden Yards last week, before the ALCS "This game is incredible. Was everyone's like 'Let's go, we can do it, and men, and keep pushing and win the game. "
Have kept the Royals to pay, the right to the brink of the third AL banner and the first in most of their lives. In three games against the Orioles, which barely even late, underdeveloped 1-0 in the second round on Tuesday, then connect the game in the fourth and move forward in the sixth, at the right moment.
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Was the winning formula again in Game 3, after he began Jason Frasor perfect relay four half with one-sixth of 1-2-3. The Netherlands, baseball's most reliable closer since the very first save, in August 2011, and finished it off with a low strike to break the bat into second place. Of course, he went to escape from the wood veneer Steve Pierce in his way.
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"We take pride in the expectation to win the game if it is linked to when we go to the bullpen" Holland said later. "We kind of take it as a challenge, we have the media in return for their media., And I know that we are facing hitters them - and that the most important thing - but if it gets to the battle of the media, and we take pride in going out on top."
Joined the Royals in 1976 and the Cincinnati Reds Colorado Rockies in 2007 with the only difference to start the postseason with seven consecutive victories. (Liverpool needs only those seven games to capture the championship.) Maybe Royals peaking too soon, but they will not take their chances.
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Royals came to bat in the bottom of the eighth floor of the match, trailing 7-3 to Jon Lester and Oakland Athletics. Lester was shut out for eight innings on July 20 when the Royals were under .500 and reeling. He beat him twice in his next few starts.
A for-celebrated, justifiably, to move members of her bold and daring - has acquired Leicester that same spot. He was certified ace, two-time world championship star. How can you lose?
Alcides Escobar was the first man to face Leicester in the eighth that night. Singled. Before the end of the half, and had gone to Leicester, and the deficit was down to one run. Royals tied in the ninth - bloop single, sacrifice bunt, stolen base, a sacrifice fly - and won it in the 12th.
Suddenly, everything was possible.
", And this is the best game I played in my career now in Oakland and, being down four runs in the seventh round, Jon Lester monument and go back and win the game," said Escobar at Camden Yards last week, before the ALCS "This game is incredible. Was everyone's like 'Let's go, we can do it, and men, and keep pushing and win the game. "
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Ned Yost, director of the Royals, "simply trying to find a way to get the lead through six. Then he can convert more than one game to Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland, and perhaps postseason prominent bullpen in a single generation.
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"We take pride in the expectation to win the game if it is linked to when we go to the bullpen" Holland said later. "We kind of take it as a challenge, we have the media in return for their media., And I know that we are facing hitters them - and that the most important thing - but if it gets to the battle of the media, and we take pride in going out on top."
Joined the Royals in 1976 and the Cincinnati Reds Colorado Rockies in 2007 with the only difference to start the postseason with seven consecutive victories. (Liverpool needs only those seven games to capture the championship.) Maybe Royals peaking too soon, but they will not take their chances.
Strength, which showed up against the Angels in the division series, and came to them Baltimore, where they mixed in four runs home with the usual group of singles and infield bloopers break bats. They make your luck with their speed, has been robbed of hits in the Orioles infield, outfield - and even ward dugout, where a crowd surfed Mike Moustakas for hunting in the sixth inning on Tuesday.
Dayton Moore, general manager of the Royals "Since 2006, they along he could not bear Sluggers most free agent, playing in the garden of a house cavernous, anyway. Was more cost-effective, and make more sense on the field for the cultivation of games Sports, to find players who can field and hit and run, if not usually a lot of energy for.
"For us, it's just the way we set out to do this," said Moore. "We felt it was only the most important way to do this for our pitch and our market, speed and defense. Offensive speed is a characteristic which will appear in every day, and AIDS is certainly part of the defense."
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