The Kansas City Royals just concluded the most improbable, exhilarating, agonizing and — ultimately — meaningful season in the franchise’s past three decades of existence. That they lost the World Series to the inexplicably dynastic San Francisco Giants in a memorable Game 7 that literally came down to the final out doesn’t soften the blow […]
The Kansas City Royals just concluded the most improbable, exhilarating, agonizing and — ultimately — meaningful season in the franchise’s past three decades of existence. That they lost the World Series to the inexplicably dynastic San Francisco Giants in a memorable Game 7 that literally came down to the final out doesn’t soften the blow […]
It would have been close. Alex Gordon might have scored, particularly if he’d been in the mindset to do so all along. Or maybe not. I’m sure there will be Zapruder-film-type breakdowns, and I’ll look forward to seeing them. It would have been one hell of a moment: Gordon, 220 pounds, who looks like he […]
It would have been close. Alex Gordon might have scored, particularly if he’d been in the mindset to do so all along. Or maybe not. I’m sure there will be Zapruder-film-type breakdowns, and I’ll look forward to seeing them. It would have been one hell of a moment: Gordon, 220 pounds, who looks like he […]
After a miracle postseason run, the Kansas City Royals’ quest for their first World Series championship since 1985 looks shaky. Combining Baseball-Reference.com’s in-game win probability model with the series win probability numbers I computed for a post on Friday, we can track the odds of each team winning the series at any point within any […]
