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 Kansas City Royals
| What year did the Kansas City Royals win their first World Series title? | Kansas City Royals
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1985. They won it on October 27, 1985. This was the biggest comeback ever, they were down 3-0. They beat the St. Louis Cardinals by a score of 11-0 in the final game to win the World Series. Bret Saberhagen pitched a 5 hit game.
| What year did the Kansas City Royals start playing in the Major Leagues? | Kansas City Royals
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1969. They started playing when Ewing Kauffman (who the stadium is named after) bought the rights to the team.
1973. It was opened and named Royals Stadium in 1973, the same year they hosted the All-Star game. It was changed to Kauffman stadium on July 2, 1993, to honor Ewing M. Kauffman.
| How many American League divisional titles did the Kansas City Royals win in the 1970s? | Kansas City Royals
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3. They won 3 straight in 1976, 1977 and 1978.
False . Royals Stadium was Astroturf from 1973-1994, then switched natural grass for the 1995 season.
1980. They lost out to the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. The Phillies won the final game 4-1.
George Brett . George Brett won three batting titles and retired in 1993. His number was retired with him in 1999.
8. He won 8 gold gloves at second base for the Kansas City Royals. He won Gold Gloves in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, and 1987.
Cancer. The Baseball Encyclopedia, 9th edition, came in 1979, not 1972. Also, his lifetime stats were 56-46, 244 saves, and 379 strikeouts.
Bret Saberhagen . Bret Saberhagen threw a five hitter en route to victory.
112. George Brett was the teams leader with 112 RBIs.
Steve Balboni. He led the team with 160 games played during the regular season.
91-71. The Royals finished 20 games above 500.
Charlie Leibrandt . Leibrandt beat out Saberhagen by .18.
| What was the name of the team that Kansas City played in the American League Championship Series? | Kansas City Royals: 1985
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Toronto Bluejays . The Royals are the only team in history to come back from 3 to 1 deficits to win both the Conference Championship and the World Series.
8. He also was the only full time starter with a losing record.
11-0. The Royals had come back from trailing 3 to 1 in the series to win game 7 in a rout.
John Tudor. He was statistically the best pitcher on the Cards staff in 1985.
41,658. Standing room only was an understatement.
Central. They played from 1969 to 1993 in the Western Division.
1985. Kansas City beat St. Louis in 7 games to win the 1985 World Series.
George Brett . George hit .333 in 1976, an amazing .390 in 1980, and .329 in 1990, to win the batting titles in those years. He retired in 1993 and was elected to the Hall of Fame six years later in 1999.
| What Royals pitcher was signed from the Newark Bears in 2003, and won his first seven starts? | The Kansas City Royals
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Jose Lima. Jose's best season was in 1999, when he went 21-10 with a 3.58 ERA for Houston.
f. First baseman Mike Sweeney and closing pitcher Mike MacDougal, were voted into the 2003 All-Star Game.
Carlos Beltran. Carlos finished the 2002 season with 29 home runs and 105 RBI's, to go along with his .273 average.
Runelvys Hernandez. Runelvys finished 4-4 in 2002, and was their Opening Day starter in 2003, with only 4 career wins at the time.
9. They swept three games from Chicago, two from Cleveland, two from Detroit, then two more from Cleveland, before losing 6-1 to Cleveland on April 13th.
Jermaine Dye . In 2000, he had 33 home runs and 118 RBI's, to go with his gold glove in right field.
1970s. The Royals finished 102-60 in 1977, first in the Western Division, but as they did in 1976 and 1978, they lost to New York in the first round of the playoffs.
1985. They won in 1985 beating the St. Louis Cardinals in 7 games. The series climaxed during game six, when after eight scoreless innings, the Cardinals scored a run in the eighth and ninth inning. Pinch-hitter Dane Iorg hit a single that scored the tying and winning runs. The Royals went on to win game seven, 11-0.
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