If you asked anybody at the beginning of the season who they thought would be in the World Series they probably wouldn’t have said the Kansas City Royals. The last time the Royals made the playoffs was 27 years ago and a legend by the name of George Brett was playing third base for KC and led them to their first world series where they beat the St Louis Cardinals.

After nearly three decades of frustration, the Kansas City Royals have finally punched their ticket to the fall classic. They did so by winning a wild card game against the Oakland A’s, sweeping the Los Angeles Angels into the American League Division Series, and then finally sweeping the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series to go to the World Series. The Royals are embroiled with the San Francisco Giants out of the National League where the boys from the Bay area beat the St Louis Cardinals in five games to advance to the World Series.

In game one, the San Francisco Giants slaughtered the Kansas City Royals by a score of 7-1. The game was pretty much over in the first inning when Gregor Blanco set the tone for the game by smoking one right up the middle and the rounding first base aggressively and then making it to second on a fly out by Joe Panik. He later scored on a double by Pablo Sandoval. Then with two outs a full count and a man on second, Hunter Pence hit a home run on a line drive to center to make it 3-0 before the royals got out of the inning. In the third inning, the Giants and Madison Bumgarner managed their way out of a bases loaded jam to keep the Royals off the board. In the top of the fourth, the Giants added two more runs on a Micheal Morse line drive to center field to score Hunter Pence to make it 4-0. Then, the Royals walked Gregor Blanco with the bases loaded which brought in Brandon Belt to make it 5-0. The next score would happen in the top of the 7^th when the Giants added two more runs to make it 7-0 on Joe Panik and Pablo Sandoval RBI’s. The Royals added there only run in the bottom of the 7^th on a Salvador Perez home run. Closing the door on game one, Hunter Strickland shut down the Royals in the 9^th to give the Giants the victory.

In game two the San Francisco Giants send Jake Peavy to the mound and the Royals will start the hard throwing Yordano Ventura.

Update: In game two of the World Series, the Kansas City royals did exactly what the San Francisco Giants did to them in game one: they beat the Giants 7-2. In the first inning, it looked like it was going to be another blowout for the Giants when the first batter of the game Gregor Blanco took a 98 MPH fastball over the right field wall becoming the first Giants player to open a World Series game with a home run and the tenth player to open a game with a home run in the MLB. But then, the royals came back and answered the Giants run in the first inning by scoring one of their own on a Billy Butler single. In the next inning, the Royals took the lead on an Alcedis Escobar double which scored Omar Infante to make it 2-1. The giants would later tie it at 2-2 in the fourth again on a Brandon Belt double. The Kansas City Royals opened up the game by adding five runs in the sixth to make it a blowout, beating the Giants 7-2.

Now, the teams will travel to San Francisco as the home field advantage shifts to the Giants. Game three will be on Friday October 24 at 8:00 and the San Francisco Giants will send Tim Hudson to the mound and the Kc Royals will send Jeremy Guthrie to the mound hoping for a victory.

In game three of the World Series, the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2. The Royals got a run in the first inning with a RBI by Lorenzo Cain and then added two more in the sixth to make it 3-0. The Royals runs were credited to Eric Hosmer and Alex Gordon. In the bottom of the sixth, the Giants answered the runs by scoring two on a Michael Morse and Buster Posey RBI, but it was not enough for the Giants to beat the KC Royals as the Royals took the game 3-2.

In game four of the World Series, the San Fransisco Giants beat the Kansas City Royals 11-4 all the run scoring started with the Giants in the first on a Hunter Pence RBI the royals would later answer in the third with four of their own runs. That would be it for the run scoring by Kansas City as the Giants would go on to score ten runs from to beat the Royals 11-4.

In game five the San Francisco Giants will send their ace Madison Bumgarner to the mound and the Kansas City Royals will send their ace James Shields to the mound.

In game five of the World Series, the San Francisco Giants shutout the Kansas City Royals 5-0 on strong pitching from Madison Bumgarner. This game was played with heavy hearts after the guys learned that St Louis Cardinals rookie Oscar Taveras and his girlfriend passed away in a car crash in his native country the Dominican Republic he was just 22 and she was 18 they both had young promising careers ahead of them. One player inspired to play for Oscar was Juan Perez. He hit a double off the center field wall to give the giants the a 4-0 lead he was later drove in by Brandon Crawford to make it 5-0 after that Madison Bumgarner completed the complete game shutout by shutting down the Royals in the ninth the Giants now lead the series 3-2 and are going back to KC for game six and seven if necessary.

In game six of the World Series, the Kansas City Royals thrashed the Giants 10-0 on strong pitching from Yordano Ventura and some hot bats so that meant there would be a game seven and the Giants would send Tim Hudson to the mound and the Royals would send Jermey Guthire to the mound hoping to clinch the title.

In game seven, Giants won and clinched the title adding another championship, which makes it three championships in five years. The Giants beat the Royals 3-2 the Giants scored two runs top of the first inning on Michael Morse and Brandon Crawford with fly-outs. The Royals would answer that and tie the game at 2-2 with help by Alex Gordon and Omar Infante. In the fourth inning the Giants would add the winning run on another Micheal Morse RBI then after that Madison Bumgarner would take over for Tim Hudson and lead the Giants to the victory which would give the Giants the victory. The MVP of the World Series would be Madison Bumgarner because of his efforts, hewon two games and came in and saved game seven by pitching five scoreless innings to score the World Series.

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