The 2015 Major League Baseball season is over and for the first time in 30 years the Kansas City Royals are the ones hoisting the Commissioners Trophy. The Royals were seen as an underdog for almost every single game in their post season run against the Astros, Blue Jays, and Mets, but they managed to prove everyone wrong on their way to becoming World Champions.
The series between the Mets was supposed to be a disaster for the Royals, as they were expected by many top baseball analysts to lose the series in as little as five games. This was not the case considering the Royals won the series in five games winning the series 4-1 against a very good New York Mets team. When looking at the numbers, the Royals should've lost the series, but late-inning rallies, a few extra-inning wins, and a dominant Royals bullpen, proved to be New York's kryptonite.
The Royals have continued to prove everyone wrong throughout the 2015 season considering many of ESPN's best analysts projected them to finish fourth in the American League Central Division. Newsflash; they won the American League Central Division, they beat the Houston Astros in the American League Divisional Series, beat the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Championship Series, finally beating the New York Mets in the World Series. Kansas City has risen from the dark years of losing 100 games to prove that they can compete and be World Champions.
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