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AL Wild Card Playoff Game: Oakland Athletics at Kansas City Royals
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September 30, 2014
A's go out of their way to break your heart
Wild Card Recap: Oakland actively goes out of its way to break your heart
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September 30, 2014
Wild Card Postgame: It's all over
A post-game thread of mourning while I finish write the recap. A's lose, 9-8, in what might be the most heartbreaking Oakland playoff loss of the Billy Beane era.
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September 30, 2014
AL Wild Card Playoff Game Thread: A's at Royals
I don't need to say a single word to hype up the first playoff game of 2014. I'm not looking for a "Win or Go Home" sign in the clubhouse; no one needs that reminder. Here, in the land of zero expectations, at the close of a season that has been dying a slow death since August, this battered, bruised, all-but-beaten A's team, against all odds, finished the regular season, and with their last gasp of breath, managed to split a four-game series as they stumbled over the finish line, the last team to end. Yet even now, they could resurrect their season in a single moment and be reborn tomorrow as a bone fide playoff team. All it will take is one road win over the feel-good story of the Kansas City Royals, who are making their first playoff appearance in 29 years in front of a crowd that hasn't seen a playoff game in a lifetime.
