A back-and-forth American League Wild Card Game ended when the Royals rallied for two runs in the 12th inning to beat the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium.
The maddening nature of baseball
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Baseball is catharsis and revelation, triumph and torture, a game filled with slow, meditative appreciations and short bursts of delirium that you store in your delirium hump for months, years, decades just in case. Royals fans were the delirium camels in this scenario. That delirium hump was withered and dry after almost three decades in the desert, yet somehow completely full. That’s awful. Let me start over.
Baseball is astounding. Baseball is the intentional misdirection of what’s important, an irrational tethering of hopes and emotions to something as unreliable as physics. How could something so meaningless mean so much? Yet every year, here we are, talking about a game that made us feel like that. The Royals feel like that. The players stormed out of the dugout, unconcerned with anything else in the world. Strangers hugged strangers in the stands, unconcerned with anything else in the world.
Read Article >The Royals’ walk-off win from inside the stadium
Ed ZurgaJeff Passan was in the building to capture the crowd explosion for Salvador Perez’s walk-off:
And a couple more:
Read Article >ALDS schedule: Angels vs. Royals
Ed ZurgaThe Angels (98-64) owned the best record in baseball during the regular season, but split six games against the Royals, including winning two of three games in Anaheim, where they were an MLB-best 52-29.
The ALDS will be televised by TBS, with the A-team crew of Ernie Johnson on play-by-play, Cal Ripken and Ron Darling for analysis and reporter Matt Winer. That quartet called the American League Wild Card Game on Tuesday night.
Read Article >KC Police want crime to chill while Royals are on
Usually, they’re pretty whatever about crimes:
Read Article >A’s, Royals lineups set for AL Wild Card Game
The A’s and Royals have released their respective lineups for the 2014 American League Wild Card Game, which is currently threatened by rain. But it’s not like they’re going to start the game, play an inning, then have to remove Jon Lester and James Shields because of a three-hour delay.
/looks around nervously
Read Article >Royals, A’s to meet in AL Wild Card Game
Jerry Lai-USA TODAY SportsThe game will be televised by TBS, with Ernie Johnson, Ron Darling and Cal Ripken in the booth.
The game will begin at 8:07 p.m. ET on Tuesday, MLB announced Sunday.
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