It's certainly not ideal to be witnessing October unfold from the outside looking in, but that's unfortunately where the Kansas City Royals find themselves at the moment.
Still, even if Major League Baseball is without the Royals this month, that doesn't mean the Royals haven't seen their fair share of playoff mentions.
During the Seattle Mariners' ALDS victory over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday, a dominant performance by, ironically enough, a former AL Central foe in Jorge Polanco reminded the baseball world of former Royals slugger Jorge Soler.
How so? Well, Polanco would achieve a rare and unique feat in the win, one that was achieved by Soler before anyone else several years earlier.