Author: Cole Nevins

The Kansas City Royals entered these playoffs with the 1st wild card spot… Now their eyes are set on the big prize, the World Series. They’ve been the ultimate comeback kids in the postseason with soooooo many games going into extra innings and them winning them all. In fact, they are unbeaten so far in the postseason, yes 8-0 with 1 win to go till they get to the series. This run is really, really unbelievable knowing that they swept, (yes swept) the #1 Angels and jumping out to this 3-0 game lead on the top notch O’s with yet another home game. They won last night 2-1 on a great pitching performance to keep the Orioles in check. It’s extremely unlikely that the Orioles make a comeback because to do that, they must win 4 straight games and a few at Kauffman stadium… Also in the MLB- The San Francisco Giants are up 2-1 to the Cardinals in the NLCS after winning 5-4 on a walk off in the 10th inning. What happened? Cards pitcher Randy Choate must have had the butterflies in his stomach with a lot on the line and making a game losing throwing error. This is a close series and I wouldn’t be surprised if it went into a game 7 and I am unsure who would even...

The champion series match ups are all set with the Cardinals and Giants taking on each other in the NLDS and the Royals (yes, the Royals beat the #1 Angels) and Orioles in a tough matchup. The favorites in these playoffs have really been beat up, here are some teams who got burned: AL Wild Card: A’s get knocked out in extras to KC NL Wild Card: Giants beat up Pirates in shutout ALDS: KC sweeps the Angels… and bad NLDS: Cardinals beat up Clayton Kershaw twice (and once to advance) ALDS: Another AL Sweep… O’s dominate Tigers pitching to advance to ALCS NLDS: Giants finish up the Nats on a devastating wild-pitch to advance in a 3-1 series win This definitely was not the Champion Series that everyone predicted… Let alone the World Series teams, the Cards and Giants are very recent winners in the past years for the World Series but the O’s and Royals especially are surprising. I’m very excited to see how this turns...

Who know’s what October is? Playoff time! The 1st playoff game was the A’s clashing against the Royals in the 1 game AL Wild Card. The winner faces off against the Angles in the ALDS.  The A’s had playoff pitching specialist Jon Lester who the acquired from the Bo-Sox for slugger Yoenis Cespedes (which I will talk about) at the trade deadline to boost their pitching. For the Royals, they had James Shields.  Fast Forward to the 3rd inning when the Royals took a 3-2 lead in the 3rd inning with RBI’s from Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain. But the A’s boosted their confidence and in the 6th, Brandon Moss hit a 3 run bomb to center and Derek Norris and Coco Crisp led in a run to made it 7-3 Oakland. The Royals were stunned but they came back with 3 runs in the 8th and a Aoki sac-fly to go to extra’s. After the A’s took a 8-7 lead in the 12th from Alberto Callaspo RBI single, the Royals punched in the tying and winning walkoff runs with a Salvador Perez 1 run single! The Royals are moving on! This is the 1st time since 1985 KC has made the postseason so this is big for them. I’m predicting the Angels to eliminate them but it will be fairly close but hopefully the Royals will comeback with...