Confronted with the prospect of a deflating end to their season on Monday in Houston, we’ll all remember, the Royals mustered a rally from four runs down in the eighth inning to win 9-6 and even the American League Division Series 2-2.
It would have been incomprehensible if, well, they hadn’t done the same sort of thing a year ago.
Still, it was a glorious twist, and in the exhilaration of the moment maybe terms like “heroic” came to mind for what this team did.
And the first to tell you how inappropriate that is are the Royals.