SportsBeat KC: Talk about a Royals rally for the ages ... reliving Game 4 of 2015 ALDS
The Royals entered the 2015 MLB playoffs with the American League’s best record, but they were always seeming to play from behind early in that year’s AL division series against the Houston Astros.
Down two games to one and trailing 6-2 as they came to bat in the top of the eighth inning of Game 4 at Minute Maid Park, the Royals, and their season, appeared to be headed to a crushing conclusion.
Five runs and one insane rally later, the Royals were back in the driver’s seat.
In this episode of our daily SportsBeat KC podcast, Star columnists Sam Mellinger and Vahe Gregorian join host Blair Kerkhoff in reliving that division series. They particularly zero in on the Royals’ Game 4 explosion, when Moose and company embodied their familiar exhortation to “keep the line moving.”
You’ll also hear game highlights from the television broadcast that day and how the Star’s reporters on the scene described such an unlikely turn of events soon after it ended with a final score of Royals 9, Astros 6.
Story links:
A 2015 Royals story you haven’t heard before, and how Dayton Moore has changed since
2015 flashback: Stories, photos, pages from Royals’ ALDS Game 2 victory over Astros
What we remember from the Royals’ ALDS Game 2 win over the Astros