They won the first two, in and , then lost five straight from through the ALDS. Then they won another three straight, in the postseason en route to a World Series title. In , they made it all the way to the World Series before losing to the Giants. A year later, they made it back to the Fall Classic, this time falling to the Cardinals. But the Dodgers have also won three series against the Yankees -- so the Twins hold the distinction for most postseason series losses against an opponent without a win.
Every team's postseason series winning percentage. The highly attended Royals games are typically against popular opponents, who have many of their own fans in attendance and are also typically historically competitive franchises. We expect a record crowd regardless of what the statistics say. Did we mention it has been 4, games since the last time this happened? Here is a complete record of those games. Hover over a square to get the game date and result.
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The Evolytics staff has proven experience and expertise in analytics strategy, tagging implementation, data engineering, and data visualization. While the Royals have been sitting at home watching meaningful October baseball for almost three decades now, a few things have been going on in the game.
Rather than just say, "It's been 28 years since the Royals have made the postseason -- that's a really long time" let's instead show our work. Consider these representations of just how long 28 years is in Major League Baseball, and what can happen in that time frame. Greg Maddux happened in between Royals' playoff appearances.
Like, the whole thing. Maddux debuted with the Cubs in September of at the age of He pitched for the Cubs through , pitched 11 seasons for the Braves, rejoined the Cubs, then the Dodgers, then the Padres, then the Dodgers again, and called it a career.
He threw over 5, regular season innings -- and another in the playoffs -- and was part of 13 different playoff teams, including the World Series champion Braves. Maddux won four Cy Young awards, made eight All-Star teams, was awarded 18 Gold Gloves -- including 13 in a row -- and retired after 23 seasons in the majors. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in in his first year of eligibility, and now he is in possession of Twitter's greatest avatar. Maddux was voted into Cooperstown back in January and was inducted in July, when things were still very much up in the air for Kansas City.
The entire Greg Maddux experience, from start to finish, was completed in between meaningful Royals' October games. Barry Bonds hit 13 dingers as a year-old in Low-A ball in , his first professional baseball season. Those are the only home runs Barry Bonds hit before the Royals last made the playoffs. The other of them -- he hit seven at Triple-A in -- came after the Royals' World Series win.
Bonds hit a record homers in the majors while setting the all-time walks record with 2, and the intentional walk record with From through , when the Royals finished in last place in the AL Central for four consecutive years, they amassed 1, walks and homers, and it only took them twice as many plate appearances as Bonds had in his career to do it.
There were more major debuts in than just those two. In fact, you can build an entire team comprised of Hall of Famers, soon-to-be Hall of Famers, and guys who were or are pretty close to that distinction. Barry Larkin, inducted into Cooperstown in , could play shortstop for them. Injured Ronald Acuna, Jr. When Charlie Morton was knocked out of the World Series with a fractured fibula in his first start, the rest of the Atlanta Braves reeled from the blow but did not break. Every year I write this column, in some varying form, and every year it feels even better than the previous year.
The way most baseball fans feel about the start of the Major League Baseball season is how I feel about the start of the Winter Ball season. It is, without question, my favorite time of the baseball year. Bowman Cards. Though most of the baseball headlines this fall will concern the progress of labor negotiations forced by the Dec. Mark Koenig made his mark in the majors. Goudey Cards. By Paul Semendinger, Ed. Much of history has forgotten Koenig but he played a significant role in one of baseball's most legendary stories.
The St. While watching the Fall Classic, baseball fans often like to reminisce about past title winners. They have been exciting World Series that have gone down to the final Game 7, but we've also seen some of the best teams just roll through the regular season and the postseason to win it all.
For example, the New York Yankees, who set the record for most total wins that year , or more recently the win Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies.
In contrast, there have been some teams that did not have the best record and maybe snuck into the playoffs in the Wild Card spot, but got hot at the right time to win it all. Here are four recent unlikely teams to win a championship. This podcast contains numerous baseball references from the TV show. The Detroit Tigers, based in Comerica Park, enjoyed a revival under a young pitching coach.
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