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Athletics vs Royals

MLB • Wildcard Game • Sep 30 2014

Kauffman Stadium

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8

Athletics

8

Royals

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ATH

KC

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2

1

2

0

0

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0

2

4

0

0

5

0

0

6

5

0

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0

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8

0

3

9

0

1

10

0

0

11

0

0

12

1

2

RHE

8130

9150

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Takes

I would like to thank Flame for finally giving something nice to Royals fans on the app. For the game this was a certified classic! This Royals team was so scrappy and just always had that underdog mentality. I was big into baseball at this time going to games with my family and remember the year after this my parents got me tickets to the ALDS the year the Royals won the title. Hosmer had a great game and so did Cain. The hero of the game and the player to hit the game winner is still on the team and is the new Royals HR champ. Salvy means so much not only to Royals baseball, but baseball in general. Special teams which for me has such a special memory in my heart.

Easily the best Wild Card game ever. There is probably one I am forgetting about but I do not care. This is a great game, another banger TBT by flame

@DarthPlagueisTheWise

This was an awesome comeback win for the Royals! This was a ton of fun, but I’m sure they won’t be able to do much in the next round…

The second game between these teams that was a throwback Thursday

The best Wild Card game in MLB history and it's not a debate. I'm not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I want the MLB to go back to the 1 game Wild Card. I think the feeling have changed now that there is 2 Wild Card matchups instead of only one due to the expansion of the playoffs, but games like these were just so awesome. Red Sox vs Yankees in 2021, 1 game at the greatest stadium in baseball. While that wasn't necessarily the best game, the biggest rivals in baseball-hell in all of sports, each with the same record, fighting in one single game to advance in the playoffs. Bring back the 1 game Wild Card.

@FlameRaptorRaven

No matter how questionable the single game Wildcard was in terms of fairness, there’s no denying that it gave us some fantastic games, none better than this one. This classic also represents the official coming out party of the 2014-15 Royals aka Royalball aka Forever Royals, whatever you want to call them, they were fun. Ironically it looked like Kansas City’s legendary bullpen was going to be their downfall. The A’s jumped to a 4-run lead on the back of an underrated performance from Brandon Moss who hit a 3-run home run before his teammates bullied the nearly infallible Kelvin Herrera. I call this the coming out party for this team because it perfectly defines what made them great. In the 8th they abused Lester by stealing 4 bases and scoring 3 runs because of it before another stolen base in the 9th helped send this game to extras. The bullpen shut down the A’s offense to set up Salvador Perez’s heroic moment when he drove in the winning run in the 12th after Colon caused chaos.