Editing Kansas City Royals (section)

===1985: "The I-70 Series"===
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In the [[1985 Major League Baseball season|1985 regular season]] the Royals topped the Western Division for the sixth time in ten years, led by Bret Saberhagen's [[Cy Young Award]]-winning performance and George Brett's self-described best "all around year."  Throughout the ensuing playoffs, the Royals incurred both a 2-0 and a 3–1 series deficit in both rounds of the playoffs, but always managed to claw their way back into the series. In game three of the [[1985 American League Championship Series|American League Championship Series]], with KC down 2 games to 0, George Brett homered twice and doubled off the fence in right field to put Kansas City back into the series. With the Royals down three games to one in the American League Championship Series against the [[1985 Toronto Blue Jays season|Toronto Blue Jays]], the Royals eventually rallied to win the series 4–3, highlighted by a go-ahead 3-run triple from [[Jim Sundberg]] against Blue Jay's ace [[Dave Stieb]] in Game 7.

====1985 World Series====
{{Main|1985 World Series}}

In the 1985 World Series (nicknamed the "I-70 Series" because the two teams are both located in the state of [[Missouri]] and connected by [[Interstate 70]]) against the cross-state [[1985 St. Louis Cardinals season|St. Louis Cardinals]], the Royals again fell behind, three games to one. After Danny Jackson pitched the Royals to a 6–1 win in game five, the Cardinals and Royals headed back to Kansas City for game six. Facing elimination, the Royals trailed 1–0 in the bottom of the 9th inning, when [[Jorge Orta]] led off, hitting a bouncing ground ball to Cardinals 1st basemen [[Jack Clark (baseball)|Jack Clark]], who flipped the ball back to pitcher [[Todd Worrell]] at first base. The ball beat Orta to the bag, but umpire [[Don Denkinger]] called him safe, and following a dropped popup by Clark and a passed ball, the Royals rallied to score two runs, winning on a walk-off single from pinch hitter [[Dane Iorg]] to send the series to game seven. In game seven [[Bret Saberhagen]] shutout the Cardinals as Kansas City dominated the Cardinals 11–0, clinching their first title in franchise history.<ref>{{cite web|title=1985 World Series Kansas City Royals over St Louis Cardinals|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1985_WS.shtml|access-date=June 30, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130235354/http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1985_WS.shtml|archive-date=November 30, 2007}}</ref>