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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.
New York won the season series against the Royals (5-2), but Baltimore had won the season series and that turned out just fine for Kansas City. ... Royals vs. Yankees. Game 1: Royals at Yankees ...
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 Twins held off a late comeback by the Tigers to win Game 1, 8–5, then convincingly took Game 2 by three runs to go up 2–0 in the series. When the series moved to Detroit for Game 3, the Tigers blew a 5–0 lead in the top of seventh, putting them in danger of falling behind 3–0 in the series, but Detroit’s Pat Sheridan hit a two-run ...
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