the last time the royals won a world series was 1980.
when was the last time the royals won a world series?
1980
bullet::::- november 1 – the kansas city royals captured the second world series title in franchise history, with a 12-inning, 7–2 victory over the new york mets in game 5 at citi field. once again, kansas city came from behind to overcome a dominant start by matt harvey, who carried a 2–0 shutout through eight innings, then convinced mets manager terry collins to let him remain in the game. as a result, the royals rallied for a pair of runs in the ninth to tie it at 2–2 before the five-run explosion in the decisive 12th. salvador pérez, who hit .364 (8-for-22) in the series, earned most valuable player honors. pérez also was involved in the tying run and started the five-run rally to put the game away. edinson vólquez returned from his father's funeral in the dominican republic in time to start the game for the royals. when vólquez was preparing to start game 1 of the series, his father daniel died at age 63 and had been battling heart disease. even though, vólquez allowed just three runs on six hits in six innings of kansas city's 5–4 victory in the opener. this time vólquez gave up a leadoff home run to curtis granderson on his third pitch of the night. but he settled down and retired the next three batters, then faced the minimum nine batters over the next three frames thanks to a pair of double plays, holding the mets’ lead at 1–0 while harvey dominated the royals inning after inning. vólquez kept his composure as the game moved to the sixth, when the mets used a granderson walk, a david wright single and an error to load the bases with nobody out. but vólquez limited the damage to one run, striking out yoenis céspedes and allowing a sacrifice fly rbi to lucas duda before retiring travis d'arnaud on a third base ground ball, keeping the royals well within striking distance. harvey took the mound for the ninth with his pitch count at 102 and the mets leading 2–0. up to that point, harvey's line was four hits with nine strikeouts and one walk. harvey proceeded to walk leadoff batter lorenzo cain, who subsequently stole second base and scored on an rbi double by eric hosmer. mets manager collins then summoned jeurys familia to close out the game, but with hosmer at third base and one out, pérez hit a soft ground ball to third, with the infield in, and wright looked hosmer back to third and threw to first for the out. but hosmer bounced around third the whole play, waited for wright to make the throw and he bolted for home. duda took the throw for the second out but his relay to the plate was wide right, pulling d'arnaud away from the play and allowing hosmer to score the tying run. with both teams tied at 2–2, the game went into extras innings, and the royals took control in the top of the 12th scoring five runs. pérez started with a leadoff single off losing pitcher addison reed, while pinch-runner jarrod dyson stole second and moved to third on a grounder. christian colón then stepped in as a pinch-hitter for reliever luke hochevar. it was his first plate appearance since october 4, but he was able to hit a hard single to left field that brought home the tiebreaking run. after that, paulo orlando grounded into fielder's choice to second baseman daniel murphy, and was safe at second on a two bases error by murphy. alcides escobar followed with a double that scored colón and advanced orlando to third. with kansas city up 4–2, ben zobrist was intentionally walked and bartolo colón replaced reed. cain then hit a bases loaded double against colón to push the score to 7–2. hochevar was credited with the win and wade davis retired the last three outs of the series. the kansas city royals are the first team since the 1989 oakland athletics to win the world series a season after losing the world series the previous year. they also are the first american league team since the 1961 new york yankees to win a world series a year after losing game 7 of the world series.
2015 in baseball
on october 1 at pnc park, in an 8–0 win over the pittsburgh pirates in the national league wild card game, bumgarner pitched his first career postseason complete-game shutout and first of the 2014 postseason, a four-hit shutout, allowing the giants to advance to the nlds against the washington nationals. he joins sandy koufax from the 1965 world series and justin verlander from the 2012 american league division series as the only postseason pitchers to pitch a shutout and strikeout ten or more batters in a winner-take-all game. on october 11 at busch stadium, in a 3–0 win over the st. louis cardinals in game 1 of the national league championship series, by tossing shutout innings, bumgarner set a new major league postseason record with consecutive postseason scoreless innings on the road, breaking the ninety-year-old record held by fellow giant, art nehf. for his performance, he was named nlcs mvp. on october 21 at kauffman stadium, in a 7–1 win over the american league champion kansas city royals in game 1 of the world series, bumgarner pitched seven innings of one-run ball. his major league postseason record of consecutive scoreless innings on the road ended when he gave up a solo home run to salvador pérez in the seventh inning; it was the first run he had allowed on the road since game 4 of the 2010 nlcs. on october 26 at at&t park, in a 5–0 win over the royals in game 5 of the world series, bumgarner pitched his second career postseason complete-game shutout, another four-hit shutout on the 2014 postseason, becoming the second pitcher in franchise history with two shutouts in a single postseason after christy mathewson's three shutouts in the 1905 world series and the first san francisco giants pitcher to toss a complete-game shutout in a world series game since jack sanford in game 2 of the 1962 world series, according to fox. in addition, according to fox sports, bumgarner is the fourth left-handed pitcher with at least two shutouts in a single postseason, joining whitey ford, sandy koufax, and former teammate randy johnson. he set all-time mlb records for lowest world series era (0.29) among pitchers of at least twenty-five innings pitched and three starts, and was the first pitcher in world series history to pitch a shutout with at least eight strikeouts and no walks. on october 29, in game 7 of the world series against the kansas city royals, on two days rest, bumgarner pitched five scoreless innings in relief, preserving a one run lead as the giants won their third title in five seasons.
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