Blue Jays-Royals ALCS could get testy

The Blue Jays’ season came to a crashing halt Friday when the Royals beat them 4-3 in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series. I think it’s a wonderful story for Kansas City and for baseball in a lot of ways because when they won it previous year, there was so much discussion that oh, well, it was one-hit wonder. With the Jays, Tulowitzki played in the post-season for the first time since 2009. He only got six at-bats in the World Series. “Cespedes’ shoulder is going to be OK”, manager Terry Collins said after Game 4. After sweeping the Chicago Cubs to win the NLCS, the Mets will play in the Wo… Noah Syndergaard zinging 100 miles per hour heat, Alcides Escobar trying to catch up. To find out how to watch the Toronto Blue Jays vs. Kansas City Royals American League Championship Series Game Six live online from Kaufmann Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, see the streaming link in the final paragraph of this article. “I really couldn’t be more proud of our guys”.

“The Mets, they have that pitching staff that’s been unbelievable in the postseason and they can set up their rotation”, he said. The Rays held a 1-0 lead heading into the seventh on the strength of a Desmond Jennings home run, but Price allowed a two-run homer to Mike Napoli, which kickstarted a four-run inning for Texas.

-3B Mike Moustakas homered in the second, his first postseason home run this year after hitting five last year.

CITY-The Blue Jays are by no means looking at this as a one-and-done in terms of qualifying for the post-season.

The Kansas City Royals standout gave his team the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning – following a rain delay – as he scored from first on a single (!) from Eric Hosmer. “They never stop coming”. Later, longtime baseball men would say they had never seen anyone do what Davis was preparing to do. The AL Central was theirs to lose and rather than lose it, they actually ran away with it. Even with key players like James Shields and Billy Butler gone, the Royals continued on and even improved.

A few history was made, too. The Mets will host three games in the middle with Game 5 if necessary and the Royals will have Game 6 and game 7 at home.

Perhaps it was only fitting that Wade Davis closed out the victory.

Plus, the first World Series action at Citi Field when the scene shifts for Game 3.

His penchant for swinging at the first pitch suddenly made Yost look like a genius when he opened Game 1 with a first-pitch double off Marco Estrada.

In fact, consider this a preview for the 2016 season. That’s when the inning from hell started with a defensive miscue from shortstop Ryan Goins, opening the floodgates for a Royals comeback. The Blue Jays had the tying run on third and the go-ahead run on second with two out in the ninth.

Escobar followed teammate Lorenzo Cain in becoming the second straight Royal to earn ALCS MVP honours. The Mets’ most recent title came in 1986, led by Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden. This is not the typical closer, even the typical good closer, the guy who tries to overpower hitters with raw stuff. “We still feel like we have a pretty good group whether it’s Conner Greene, Sean Reid-Foley, Anthony Alford, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Urena, (Rowdy) Tellez, Jon Harris, and then we’re going-we expect, we hope-to have another draft pick”. Prior to that, Kansas City had only won five of Cueto’s 14 starts.

But not much to link this current crop of Mets and Royals to each other.

Every once in a while, manager Ned Yost came in and broke the silence. When Davis entered a tied playoff game with a runner on base, he needed that adrenaline.

Then, he showed his speed by leading off the Royals’ rout in Game 4 with a surprise bunt base hit off knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, eventually jogging home on Ben Zobrist’s home run.

Daniel Murphy sent yet another shot soaring over the wall and thrust his right arm in the air – he was in the record book, his Mets were headed to the World Series.