Mike Trout homered to give the Angels a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but it was almost all Royals from there. Kansas City’s bats powered it to an 8-3 lead and spot in the ALCS.
Experience? The Royals mock your ‘experience’
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY SportsFor all the predictive models we develop, for all the probabilities we calculate, and for all the math we invent, baseball consistently defies our expectations. Isn’t it great that baseball is the biggest troll there is?
If experience is supposed to mean so damn much, I don’t know how you explain that. After all, both Wainwright and Kershaw have been here before, and seeing them each lay an egg was painful. By contrast, the neophytes were unexpectedly beautiful to watch.
Read Article >Hosmer homer lifts Royals to 2-0 series lead
Denis PoroyHosmer was 3-for-4 on the night.
The Royals are the first team in history to play in three consecutive postseason games of 11 or more innings, let alone win them.
Read Article >KC police claim Royals are preventing crime
During the AL Wild Card game, the Kansas City Police Department pleaded with residents not to do crime so they could watch the sports:
It’s working!
Read Article >Norm Macdonald using sports to troll Twitter
Norm Macdonald, acquired taste and inveterate gambler, has perhaps the most amazing Twitter account going. It’s an active Twitter account, with 458,000 followers. And all he’s using it for is tweeting live in-game updates for various sporting events and gambling tips.
He did the same thing for the Vikings-Packers game earlier on Thursday night, and he also tweets fantasy updates.
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