#Royals bullpen had a 2.62 ERA in 30 playoff games in 2014-2015. Privately, the Royals’ coaching staff was proud of its players sticking up for each other.KANSAS CITY -- An estimated crowd of 800,000 Royals fans packed downtown Kansas City two days after the Royals sewed up their first World Series championship in 30 years in Queens, N.Y., in 2015. The Royals wound up with seven All-Stars, and the American League won the game managed by Yost, which assured the AL pennant winner home-field advantage in the playoffs.The Royals certainly hit the ground running in Spring Training. “I think we had some help from above.”Zobrist immediately took over in left field for Gordon, then replaced Infante at second base when Gordon returned in September.“It gave us a lot of confidence, knowing how aggressive the front office was,” Gordon said. An April series with the A’s at Kauffman Stadium featured an almost playoff-like intensity -- it was Oakland’s first trip back to Kansas City since its painful Wild Card loss there in 2014.“As good as our offseason deals came to be,” Moore said, “I don’t think we win it without getting Cueto and Zobrist.”The fightin’ Royals appeared to return in August during a trip to Toronto, a preview of the intensity the two teams would display in the AL Championship Series two months later. (July 25) Brad Hand dealt with a tired arm in the second half and posted a 5.68 ERA with four blown saves over his final 20 appearances in 2019, but he has a firm grasp on the closer role entering '20.Hansel Robles led the Angels with 23 saves while posting a 2.48 ERA in 2019. Jose Cisnero. Sep 24, 2015. Video by John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star Then came Davis, who got his first postseason save just as everyone expected. And it’s my job, and it’s our job, to teach them how to deal with these situations. (July 28)Taylor Williams earned the Mariners' first save of the season Sunday against the Astros. Next in Line. Taylor Rogers, meanwhile, hasn't made an appearance through four games, but there's been no word of an injury or illness.Oliver Drake has recorded the Rays' first two saves of the season.
"No one was satisfied.”Cueto had his ups and downs in the regular season, but came up big in the postseason.
Closer Notes. (July 28)Hector Neris could remain in the closer role after recording 28 saves with a 2.93 ERA in 2019.While Mychal Givens is still the favorite to lead the Orioles in saves, Cole Sulser recorded the team's first save of the year Sunday after Givens threw 1 1/3 innings Saturday. The Braves signed Will Smith in the offseason, but Mark Melancon is expected to open the season as Atlanta's closer.Although Jose Leclerc had an up-and-down 2019 season, he's the top candidate to lead the Rangers in saves in '20.While he allowed a run, Kwang Hyun Kim earned the first save of the season for the Cardinals on Opening Day against the Pirates. Related icons include building icons, architecture icons, town icons, office icons, urban icons, house icons, estate icons, cityscape icons (July 25)After going unsigned until June, Craig Kimbrel struggled to find a rhythm in 2019, making multiple trips to the injured list and finishing with a 6.53 ERA in 23 games. The Royals stumbled a bit in mid-September but won their final five games to sew up home-field advantage throughout the postseason.Thus, the 2015 season became known as the Royals' "Unfinished Business Tour."The Royals roared out of the gate in the regular season as well, winning their first seven games and outscoring their opponents 52-18. June 16, 2015 Kansas City Royals – Royals closer Greg Holland made a mess of the 9th inning against the Brewers last night, giving up four hits and three runs without recording an out before getting yanked.
But we’ve never been confronted with these situations. He then turned in a one-run, complete-game effort in the World Series Game 2 win over the Mets, allowing just two hits.And all of that set up these iconic postseason moments that will live forever in Royals lore:• Down 6-2 in the eighth inning at Houston in Game 4 the ALDS, the Royals pulled off a near miracle with a five-run, season-saving rally and eventually won, 9-6, to set up a Game 5 clincher in Kansas City.“You look in their eyes,” manager Ned Yost said then, “and you see hunger and determination.”• Gordon homered off Jeurys Familia in the ninth to tie the score against the Mets, and the Royals won Game 1 of the World Series in extra innings. They plowed through the Cactus League, winning 20 of 30 games.The seeds for that championship were actually planted a year earlier, when the Royals lost a heartbreaking Game 7 in the World Series to the Giants. After serving the bulk of the 2015 season as the Royals' closer, compiling 32 saves with a 3.83 ERA, doctors discovered in late September that Holland had a "significant tear" in his right ulnar collateral ligament.