The Kansas City Royals won the 2014 American League pennant, barely losing the World Series. The 2015 Royals did win the World Series. It had been Kansas City’s first major championship in 30 years, since the Royals last did it in 1985.
There’s a tweet that sticks out to me to this day regarding the Royals. Kansas City turned out for the Royals during those years like never before. Anyone in the metro could feel the energy. It was electric. The two loudest moments I have ever experienced at a baseball game was immediately following James Shields’ first pitch strike in the 2014 Wild Card Game and immediately after Salvador Perez’s grounder to third skipped by the outstretched glove of Josh Donaldson.