Baseball: League Championship Series Notes

The current ALCS between the Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals, which “K.C.” leads (2-0), is the first time in 20 Orioles’ post season series, that they trail two games to none.

This is the third time in four Giants/Cardinals NLCS that the series is tied at one game apiece. “SF” may well rue its failed opportunities in game two, which ended on Kolten Wong’s solo homer in the bottom of the ninth inning in St. Louis.

Only in 2000 vs the New York Mets and 2002 vs the Giants have the Cardinals trailed two games to none in any series that opened in St. Louis.

That includes World Series in 1931, 1942, 1944 (that one was an all St. Louis one with the Cardinals facing the St. Louis Browns, who are now the Baltimore Orioles) 1946, 1964, 1968, 1982, and 2011.

Kolten Wong