Playoff baseball always has a special feel to it and on October 8, 2015, the Kansas City Royals were out to give the home crowd a great beginning to the postseason. The only thing standing in their way were the Wild Card winners the Houston Astros in this best-of-five series. Following a similar path as Kansas City, Houston dealt with a few years of famine, finishing with a losing record since 2009 including dropping over 100 games from 2011-2013.
During that time the Astros made savvy draft picks including George Springer, Carlos Correa, Lance McCullers Jr.