With their eight-game playoff win streak last season, the Royals have become the poster boys for the value of a wild card berth for a young team.
Kansas City manager Ned Yost said the Royals are still driving in large part on the momentum generated by their comeback win a year ago against the A’s, and it benefited them in their comeback win in Game 2 against the Astros.
“From that point on (in 2014), the belief has been there, that, hey, we can come back from anything. We can come back being down one game to nothing in a five-game series.