royals win 7-2 go royals!

Yeah no doubt the East, AL and especially the Yankees have dominated Baseball from the start pretty much. Stll the state of California has won 10 potentially 11 if the Giants win this one, compared to NY's 9 over the last 50 years. The closest to those two is probaly Missouri who has had 6 potentially 7 if KC win this one.

Out of interest do the Royals have a player who is among the best in the league, or are they just a well rounded team?

I would suspect that they are well rounded, with a great deal of luck, which is a key ingredient In their success thus far.

Reaching the World series without losing a game has to be more than luck. Possibly some of the other teams had more injuries, but i don't think that alone accounts for the Royals winning a Pennant without losing a game and them being 2-1 against the Giants so far.

we shall see, camarel. I love a good series.

Ugh, really depressing to hear about the death of Cardinals top prospect Oscar Taveras. This is the third player that organization suffered through with in 12 years I believe. RIP.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb...ident/17977685/

tonights do or die for the royals, for royal fans going home is nice.

but, let's just hope those giants pitchers get tired. can't take much more of those giant hurlers, they can bring it.

Last night had shades of Game 6 between the D'Backs and NYY. A blowout win by the team down 3-2 to force Game 7. It'll be interesting if Madison Bumgarner pitches in relief at any point in Game 7 ala Randy Johnson from '01. The big difference is that the Big Unit went about 7 innings in Game 6 and then came in for 2 innings of Game 7.

Regardless of the outcome, it's been a terrific World Series.

That 2001 Series was something else -- I flipped tickets for Game 1 and 2 and paid my tuition for the year on it.

And looking at that Game 7, you had four Hall of Fame worthy pitchers in that game - Johnson, Schilling, Clemens and Rivera.

goombah.... the giants are out of pitchers, look for the royals to take it all tonight.

its been a great series.

That's a good point. But I remember in '99 Pedro Martinez coming in relief against Cleveland and throwing 5 no-hit innings. So I could see Bumgarner having an impact.

Historically, the home team has a huge advantage in Game 7. I'd say KC has the momentum, but the Giants have won it all 2 of the past 4 seasons and cannot be counted out.

Giants know how to win these games. Royals have the home field and some momentum. No cake walk either way.

well, baumgarner is as good as it gets, and, of course we could see those giant bats come alive. but, don't you think

they might be asking too much of baumgarner. he hasn't had much rest. the money should be on the royals.

No question. But he has all off-season to rest. Not to keep harping on the 2001 WS, but I believe Schilling went in Games 1, 4, & 7. This is what makes legends out of players. Gotta ride the horse(s) that got you there.

Right. Schilling went Games 1, 4 and 7 and Randy Johnson went Games 2 and 6. After those two, there was a significant dropoff in quality starters on that Diamondbacks squad.

Right. Arizona realistically had a 2 man rotation of Schilling & Johnson.

Arizona won the first two games. Then the Yanks won the next 3, including Games 4 & 5 in extra innings in dramatic fashion. Arizona exploded for a 15-2 win in Game 6, much like the Royals-SF game last night. If we get a Game 7 that is half as good as 2001, we'll be in for a real treat.

well, I don't like shields starting for the royals, can't the manager see what he's what he's been like in this series.

and Hudson for the giants, good bet they both get knocked out early. the royals bullpen is shaky, and I will worry if they have to hold a lead.

Shields isn't on the hill. It's Jeremy Guthrie for KC. Shields went in Game 5 and would prob only be available in a real pinch.

thank god. I don't want shields even in a pinch. shields is a disaster. thanks goombah. for the info.

Total panic move by Bochy to pull Hudson in 2nd inning. Esp after pulling starter in 2nd last night. Their pen is already thin.

It's a Bochy move that's totally going to be 20/20 hindsight.

Yank Hudson and they win, he's a genius.
Yank Hudson and they lose, he's insane.

I'm suprised they are keeping Bumgarner into the ninth.

Or maybe not .

well, goombah was right. pitch baumgarner. nobody could hit him all series, he never looked tired. royals just fell a little short.

It turned out to be a pretty good Series!!

Or not.

Congrats Giants fans. I feel bad for KC to have to watch the visiting team celebrate.

Is Blibbleblabble still around on the BB? I remember he was a huge Giants fan and really happy in 2010 when they won their first title.

If this doesn't remind us all that "it's just a game," then nothing will. Thanks to my friend Ed for sending this story to me.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/100056826/jeremy-guthries-small-act-loomed-large-for-dying-royals-fan

By Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com | @castrovince | 1:40 AM ET

KANSAS CITY -- The day they buried Dan Purtell, his friends and family gathered in a bar in Binghamton, N.Y. They shared the stories of a life fully but all-too-shortly lived. They cried, they hugged, they laughed and they drank. And then the clock struck 8 p.m. ET, and all eyes turned to the television sets hanging above. And they rooted for the Royals and their hero, Jeremy Guthrie, in Game 7 of the World Series.

It was just two weeks earlier that the Royals had clinched this Series berth. For Dan, a 35-year-old lifelong Royals fan fighting a cruel and unwinnable battle against the cancer that would soon claim him, the moment was bittersweet. Dan turned to his wife, Serena, and had tears in his eyes.
"I've waited my whole life to see the Royals go to the World Series," he told her, "and I'm on my deathbed."
Were the world a little kinder, Dan would have lived to see Game 7.
Were this story a little sweeter, the Royals, behind a Guthrie gem, would have won this World Series.
But we know too well that the world rarely cooperates with our vision for it. And as human beings facing that great unknown, all we can do in the unfair, unrelenting moments that remind us of our own fragility is search for some sort of solace and sense of community. For Serena and all of Dan's family and friends, Guthrie, with just a few minutes of his time on the phone shortly before the start of this Series, had helped provide that. So to them, no matter Wednesday's result, he will always be a star.
Dan knew the end was near this month. He had received his devastating diagnosis -- Stage 4 colorectal cancer -- in June 2013. Time was fleeting, the treatments increasingly desperate and hopeless.
This postseason run by the Royals -- the team he had adored his whole life as a sheer function of the fact that his beloved Uncle Jimmy loved them -- was not a rescue, but it was a welcomed diversion. Loved ones scrambled to come up with ways to somehow connect a dying, devoted fan to his favorite team one last time. A friend had a friend who worked in the community relations department of the Orioles, Guthrie's former team. That friend had Guthrie's number. A request was made, a favor was asked, and on Oct. 19, two days before the World Series began, the phone in Dan's hospital room rang.
"When I spoke to him," Guthrie said, "I knew he was very close to the end of his life. But there was no sign of that. All he could talk about was baseball and how excited he was for the Royals and for the players he roots for. To have a family that's touched by that, that's impactful. That's real life."
Guthrie said this in the immediate aftermath of Game 7, a game in which he took the loss after 3 1/3 innings of work. He was frustrated. Maybe if he could have just one pitch back from the second inning, when the Giants took the game's first lead. Or the fourth, when they took its last. Maybe if Madison Bumgarner had made just one measly mistake to these Royals hitters. Maybe if Alex Gordon had been waved home in the ninth.
The what ifs will linger for as long as any of these Royals let them.
But not even this game -- a Game 7, a signature moment in sport -- compares to the weight and the waves of life itself. Speaking about Dan, in a quiet clubhouse where the Royals somberly began to pack their bags, Guthrie kept things in proper perspective.
"I think each one of us will wake up in a couple days," he said, "and the hurt from the loss will go away, and we'll realize -- whether it's Dan or another person that's been touched by this whole experience -- ballplayers in this spotlight have these opportunities, and a very small act goes a long way."
Guthrie's small act did just that. And five days after he hung up the phone with his new favorite player, Dan watched Guthrie turn in a strong effort in the Royals' Game 3 victory in San Francisco last Friday night.
"He was trying to hang on for the whole game, in and out," Dan's brother, Brian, said. "When they won, there was definitely a smile on his face. He loved that."
It was early the next evening when Dan took his final breath. The Royals lost that night.
"It was actually kind of fitting," said Kara Nanni, the high school friend who had made the Guthrie connection happen. "All of us Royals fans -- and we're Royals fans because of Dan -- were in mourning that night."
They remain in mourning for the man who touched them with his wit, his intelligence, his genuine goodness. Dan was a preschool teacher who worked with children with special needs. He met Serena years ago at a summer camp for people with disabilities, where they both served as counselors. She loved nature, he loved baseball. They supported each other's passions by mapping out road trips to ballparks and national parks.
Dan, in fact, had a goal of visiting every Major League facility. He hung a pegboard map in his house on which each stadium was marked by a pin. Sometimes, his younger brother would accompany him on a trip, and Brian would always find himself walking ahead of Dan.
"I'd say, 'Why are you walking so slow?'" Brian said. "He'd say, 'I'm just taking it all in!'"
Dan made it to 22 of the big league ballparks. His friends are already arranging road trips, beginning next summer, to finish the final eight for him.
Serena delivered Dan's eulogy Wednesday. She told the assembled crowd that one of the last times Dan was truly happy was this past March, when the two of them traveled to Surprise, Ariz., to see the Royals play in the Cactus League. And as an October nobody could have seen coming played out, Dan was watching, rooting for, loving his Royals, even as time ticked out.
"I'd like to think," said Serena, "that maybe his death was a way of securing a seat right in front."
This is a story with a difficult ending. Serena is too young to be mourning a lost husband. Dan's parents, Terry and Joan, should not have had to bury their son. Brian should not have lost his brother, Kara should not have lost her friend. And maybe, if you believe in blessings from above, the Royals and Guthrie should not have lost this game.
As always, though, the end is only what we make of it. And that's the lesson that Dan's widow carried with her on the day of Game 7, on the day she buried the love of her life.
"One thing Dan said to me a lot was that he had so much left to do," Serena said. "So I would like people to do good things for him."

I hope the younger fans grasp just what they saw this kid do in this World Series. It just doesn't happen. It's a once in a lifetime thing to see, if that. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.

I thought whitey ford, sandy Koufax, curt schillings, and jack morrris, bob Gibson, were great in the world seies.

but, this kid was smoking. of course it helped baumgarner a lot when the royals kept swinging at balls 8 ft high out of the strike zone,

they couldn't lay off of em. great series.

Thanks for proving my point. How often does a Koufax or a Gibson or a Whitey Ford come around?

Acknowledging that this kid did something that's once in a lifetime doesn't diminish what those guys accomplished all those years ago. It actually highlights what they did because it's been so long since we've seen a performance like that.