2014 American League Wild Card Game
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| Date | September 30, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Kauffman Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | Kansas City, Missouri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Umpires | Gerry Davis (crew chief), James Hoye, Dan Iassogna, Bill Miller, Todd Tichenor, Bill Welke, Phil Cuzzi (replay), Tim Timmons (replay) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 40,502 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Television | TBS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Ernie Johnson Jr., Ron Darling, Cal Ripken Jr., and Matt Winer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2014 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2014 postseason played between the American League's (AL) two wild card teams, the Oakland Athletics and the Kansas City Royals. It was held on September 30, 2014. The Royals won by a score of 9–8 in 12 innings, and advanced to play the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the 2014 American League Division Series.
This was the second postseason meeting between the Athletics and Royals, having first met in the 1981 ALDS (Athletics won 3–0).
The 12-inning contest tied the record for the longest (by innings) "winner-take-all" game in postseason history, shared with Game 7 of the 1924 World Series.
The one-game playoff was touted as a duel between the Royals' James Shields and the Athletics' Jon Lester, but neither starting pitcher would earn a decision in the game. Oakland's Brandon Moss homered early off of Shields with Coco Crisp on base, giving the Athletics a 2–0 advantage; Kansas City halved the lead in the bottom of the first when Billy Butler singled to score Nori Aoki. Lorenzo Cain and Eric Hosmer had RBI hits for the Royals in the third inning, vaulting Kansas City to a 3–2 lead. In this third inning, Oakland catcher Geovany Soto left the game with a thumb injury sustained in a play at the plate. Soto had started the game because he would be more adept at controlling the running game of the Royals. This would come back to haunt the Athletics later in the game. The fourth and fifth innings were scoreless, but a big sixth inning gave Oakland a large lead. Sam Fuld singled to lead off the inning, and Shields was relieved by Yordano Ventura after walking Josh Donaldson. Ventura's first batter, Moss, belted a three-run homerun to give the Athletics a 5-3 lead. After Ventura was relieved by Kelvin Herrera, Derek Norris and Crisp singled in two additional runs.
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