Back in August, I projected that the KC Royals bullpen would be the greatest late-inning force in post-season history. What I did not foresee is that the offense would match the bullpen’s excellence to make the entire team the greatest late-inning juggernaut major-league baseball has ever seen.
Really, the Kansas City Royals dominated the late-innings like no other playoff team before them. They pulled off seven comebacks to overcome multi-run deficits in one post-season, breaking the previous record of five by the 1999 New York Yankees. They outscored their opponents 51-11 after the sixth inning during the 2015 playoffs, 40-6 after the seventh, and 18-0 after the eighth.