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Royals 6, Angels 5

Dick Vitale Recap – AL Wild Card Game 3 (1939) 🎙️⚾
BABY, WE HAD OCTOBER MADNESS at Angel Stadium of Anaheim! The defending champs, the Anaheim Angels, were sitting there thinking they were gonna cruise through the Wild Card… but the Kansas City Royals said “Not so fast, baby!”
Final score: Royals 6, Angels 5 — and that’s UPSET CITY! 🚨
Royals come out firing
Right from the jump the Royals brought the energy!
Chris Taylor blasted a first-inning home run to get Kansas City on the board. BOOM!
Then in the second inning, Juan Lopez delivered the play of the game — a two-run inside-the-park homer!
Inside-the-park, baby! That’s hustle! That’s energy! That’s what postseason baseball is all about!
Suddenly the Royals were up 3–0, and the crowd in Anaheim got real quiet.
Royals build the lead
Kansas City kept piling it on against Angels starter Wayne Dirlam.
Josh Harvey ripped RBI doubles.
Chris Taylor kept producing runs.
Kansas City stretched the lead to 6–0 by the seventh inning.
At that point, baby, the defending champs were on the ropes!
Angels make a furious comeback
But hey — champions don’t go quietly!
In the 7th inning, the Angels exploded:
Akiyuki Amano smoked a double to start the rally.
Mike Mosqueda ripped a run-scoring single.
Then Carlos Guzman crushed a bases-clearing double!
Five runs in the inning! Just like that the score was 6–5.
The crowd was going wild — we had a comeback special brewing, baby!
Royals hold on
But Kansas City’s bullpen said “not today!”
Vinny Aparicio helped stabilize things.
Then closer Tsuneharu Sato shut the door.
Bottom of the ninth — tying run on base — and Victor Figueroa hits into a game-ending double play.
BALLGAME! ROYALS WIN! 🎉
Series hero
The big star of the series?
Juan Lopez, baby!
.462 batting average
1 homer
6 RBI
That’s a PTP — Prime Time Performer!
What’s next
Now the Royals move on to face the rested Cleveland Indians in the Division Series.
And let me tell ya something — if Kansas City keeps playing with this kind of heart and hustle…
We might see more OCTOBER MADNESS, BABY! 🏆🔥⚾