Kauffman Stadium (Royals Stadium) - Kansas City Missouri - Kansas City Royals (American League)

Catfish Hunter led the Yankees brigade in game one, but Paul Splittorff pitched almost 6 innings of scoreless relief to win game 2... the first ever post season win at Royals Stadium. In NYC the Yankees would get the home town advantage and immediately tipped the series their way 2 games to 1, but the Royals hung tough and beat the Catfish to tie it up for a 5th and deciding game. Losing 6-3 in the eighth inning, and looking at a possible end to their season, George Brett would blast a 3 run blast to tie to game at 6. The Royals were back in the game! In the bottom of the 9th inning Chris Chambliss came to lead it off for the Yankees and with one swing of the bat, the Royals watched an entire season fall away. It cleared the fence. Fans swarmed Chambliss as he rounded the bases keeping him from touching home but the umps ruled that the chaos was uncontrollable and the HR would count. Chambliss did go back out and touch home just to make sure. The Royals were determined to make sure that they would at least get a second chance to make it right. Determined they were... to the tune of an all time Kansas City record 102 wins. (102-60, .630). Attendance meanwhile shot up to 1,680,000, another all time Kansas City record and of course, good for 3rd behind New York and Boston. 4 players would hit over 20 HRs including John Mayberry (22 2B, 23 HR, .230), George Brett (32 2B, 13 3B, 22 HR, .312), the record setting Al Cowens (32 2B, all time Royals record of 14 3B, 23 HR, all time Royals record 112 RBI, .312) and Hal McRae who hit an all time Royals record of 54 doubles (previous record of 38 was set by McRae and Mayberry in 1975), 11 triples and 21 Homers with a .298 batting average. Freddie Patek also made sure that he owned that Stolen Base record outright stealing an all-time Royals record 53 bases.