Kansas City heads to New York with a chance to make its mark on the baseball world -- and a once 'abhorred' rival.
The division series matchups are set! World Series odds, playoff keys and predicted date of doom for all 8 teamsresuscitated a rivalry that has lain dormant for nearly a half-century, the man who embodied the team in the 1970s strolled by the one who personifies it today.from the American League wild-card round -- and the hero, to be more accurate, of the baseball renaissance currently taking place in Kansas City.
"Hatred," Brett said."If you talk to anybody that played in the '76, '77, '78, '80 playoffs, it was hatred. I mean, you despise them, you abhor them. Does abhor mean hate?"Now the rivalry is renewed, with Witt looking to take on Brett's role at the center of it. After a pair of hard-fought, one-run wins in Baltimore, the Royals are in the Bronx to face the Yankees in Game 1 of the AL Division Series on Saturday.
And in his first opportunity for postseason baseball, he shone. In the bottom of the fifth inning of Game 2, the Orioles tied the score on a solo home run, then loaded the bases. Royals manager Matt Quatraro went to the mound to make a pitching change, and the team's infield gathered on the mound. Witt said, very simply,"This is our game." By the end of the mound visit, all of them were saying it. They believed.
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