And the Royals won their last five and swept a team that was still playing for a WC spot... it's not like it takes a whole month of playing well to get the required level of momentum. Go back to mid-September of last year where they lost 3 of 4 to Boston and 4 of 6 to Detroit.
They're no longer 'just happy to be there', while the Astros are that team... so, maybe it took ~14 innings for them to loosen up, or maybe baseball happened. Between all the road wins so far, Detroit and Baltimore last season, baseball seems to happen quite a bit.
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