The Kansas City Royals will face their next postseason challenge on a most national stage. All eyes will be on Yankee Stadium as the Royals on Saturday against the New York Yankees. Game 1 is scheduled for 5:38 p.
m. Central Time on TBS and MAX. The series continues in New York on Monday before shifting to Kansas City for Game 3 on Wednesday.
“We approach it as any other series,” Witt said Friday afternoon. “We come in here playing our game. Worry about one day at a time, focus one step at a time and not really focused on any outside noise.
“And I know, yeah, we could be the underdogs, whatever, but we have confidence in ourselves that we can just go out there and do our thing.” As Witt notes, this season’s Royals have thrived in the role of the underdog: They made an improbable run to the 2024 postseason after in 2023. This week, the Royals swept the Baltimore Orioles in an AL Wild Card series that marked the organization’s first playoff appearance since winning the 2015 World Series.
KC is primed to write the latest chapter in its postseason story this weekend. In recent weeks, the Royals even adopted a new motto — “Now, we go” — in place of “Today,” the slogan that had been their calling card for most of the season. The Royals have already gone farther than most anyone expected, united behind a common goal of bringing playoff baseball back to Kansas City.
Now they’re eyeing a new goal: beating one of the best teams in the majors. Team captain and.
