Now that felt like late-season, near-playoff baseball, eh? Kyle Hendricks was dazzling for six innings, yielding nothing to the Royals and striking out nine in the process. He was pulled thereafter, which, as we've seen, is pretty
Riding high behind a four-run lead and Carlos Correa's two-homer day, Houston was six outs away from the American League Championship Series. It all fell apart in a nightmare eighth inning, as the Royals plated five runs
Johnny Cueto pitched exactly like the ace the Kansas City Royals hoped to acquire at the non-waiver trade deadline in July, pitching his team to a 7-2 win over the Houston Astros in Game 5 of their American League Division
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers in an epic five-game ALDS, and the Kansas City Royals did the same against the Houston Astros, setting up a rematch of the 1985 ALCS. Get ready to live, eat and sleep
DP—Kansas City 1. LOB—Kansas City 6, Toronto 6. 2B—S.Perez (1), Donaldson (1). HR—Zobrist (1), Rios (1). SB—L.Cain (2), Donaldson (1). CS—Rios (1). SF—A.Escobar 2, Hosmer, Moustakas. advertisement