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The 1985 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1985 season.The 82nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Kansas City Royals and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals.
First instance of back-to-back game sevens since 2001–2002. First World Series championship for the Astros, who became the first AL team to win a World Series Game 7 on the road since 1972. The Astros became the second team to win two winner-take-all game sevens in the same postseason since the Kansas City Royals in 1985. [50]
The Royals are on pace for 87 wins after finishing with a 56-106 record last season. It would match the third-best regular-season turnaround since 1961. Still, the final regular-season stretch ...
For 28 consecutive seasons, between the 1985 World Series championship and 2014, the Royals did not qualify to play in the Major League Baseball postseason, one of the longest postseason droughts during baseball's expanded wild-card era. The worst years during this era were from 2002 to 2006, when the Royals had four 100-loss seasons out of five.
The 1977 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1977 season.The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
KC improved to 78-65 and now holds a 1 1/2-game lead over the Twins for the second spot in the American League Wild Card race. The Twins would’ve jumped the Royals in the standings had Saturday ...
The Royals finished a sweep of the Orioles in their best-of-three AL Wild Card Series with a 2-1 win Wednesday in Baltimore. With the victory, the Royals advanced to an American League Division ...
The Cardinals' lead would not hold as the series shifted back to Minneapolis, however. The Twins blew out the Cardinals in Game 6, 11–5, to force a seventh game. Viola pitched eight solid innings in Game 7 as the Twins came back to win by a 4–2 score, securing the title. With the Twins winning Game 7 in the regulation nine innings, the 1987 ...