The Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals are playing live on the MLB playoff schedule on Tuesday and the ALCS Game 3 matchup comes from Kauffman Stadium on TBS on TV and streaming online from MLB.com and TBS.com with KC up 2-0 on the O's and the pitching matchup has Wei-Yin Chen and Jeremy Guthrie on the mound for the American League Championship.
The Orioles come into the game down 2-0 in the series and after the rainout on Monday, they will need to get things going over these next three games. The Royals can close things out here and they will not be looking to go back to Baltimore and it will take a big performance from the O's to stop them, as the Royals have not lost yet this postseason. The Orioles came in as one of the best offensive teams in the league and not it's the Royals leading the way hitting and with the clutch plays in this series.
Lorenzo Cain has made some great plays in the field and it has been players like Eric Hosmer, Alex Gordon and Mike Moustakas coming through for the Royals. The Orioles have plenty of talent, but they have to find a way to bounce back. The rain delay has caused the Game 4 matchup to likely be James Shields against Chris Tillman again and that could tip the scales in this series. A win for KC on Wednesday would be massive and would put the Orioles in nearly and impossible situation at 3-0 down, although they will not give up on anything.
The Royals can play this game relaxed and that is how they have been through the postseason so far. The team was fourth in batting average during the season and that has greatly helped them here and they went from last to one of the best in home runs from the season to the playoffs. The team still has not lost and they now have three games at home to try and get things going against the Orioles and end the season for the O's. The Orioles won the AL East by double digits and now they are up against the wall to the American League wild card, while in the NL the Giants and Cards are now tied 1-1.
The Orioles were favored coming into this and that came after the team swept out the Detroit Tigers in the playoffs in the first round. The Royals have been rolling since coming back on the Athletics and now it looks like they can't be stopped. The team has already won four extra innings games and that's a record for a team and every team that had won three has won the World Series, so KC has a nice thing going if they want to be the champs. The Orioles have plenty of talent and can come back, but they need to win this matchup to have a real chance at doing it.
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