36 years a go YESTERDAY. Busch Stadium, Game 3 of the 85 WS. Trying to keep from going down 0-3 after losing the first two games AT HOME.
Frank White, hitting 4th in the Royals lineup, hit a titanic HR off Joaquin Andujar. LC field in old Busch Stadium. A place where fly balls died. But this one went way TF out. And deep into the tunnel.
First 2B to hit cleanup in a WS game since Jackie Robinson.
Omar Comin' - I was sitting down the 1st base line with my son when Omar hammered that ball into the bullpen to ice the game off that pussy Hunter Strickland.
Strickland acted like he wanted a piece of Sal after he crossed the plate in front of Infante. He didn't.
Made the Royals 9-1 in the 2014 post season.
I remember the 2014 WS. I swear KC was the better team. Unfortunately SF had the best player and KC had no answer for him. He pitched one of the most dominant WS I ever saw. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
We don’t have the pitching. Or the consistent offense.
Sadly yes. They are nowhere near the same team now that they were during the regular season. Sux
The Astros went through a string of injuries during the regular season, but got healthy at the end of the season and into the post season. Then Lance McCullers gets injured in the ALDS and had to face Boston without him and he was missed as they fell behind early on in the series. They'll need him in the World Series.
Injuries can change things in a hurry. Still hopeful the Dodgers can pull it off. [Reply]
Looks like a ball to me. A pretty impactful one too.
I'm not arguing that. Bad strikes and balls are called for both sides every game. I'm just saying the guy who whined all over every single video of the Royals winning that series that the "umps handed KC the series" because of a bad strike 2 call is just as sour grapes as it gets. Especially when they had men on 2nd and 3rd with nobody out and still couldn't tie the game. Thus:
Originally Posted by Chiefspants:
I'm all aboard the robo-umps train. If Umps want to read out the robo calls and still do their ring em' up poses and their unions negotiate that they get paid the same to do so, then more power to them.
Robot umpires are coming for the strike zone eventually thankfully but I think you’ll only see them come quicker if we get a Revere-like call for the Yankees/Red Sox/Dodgers or similar big market team late in a playoff game such that some actual pressure gets put on them to make a change.
I wouldn’t be upset if we saw something like that tonight. [Reply]
