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MLB: 4 Things You Need To Know About The 2014 World Series

By Ed Carroll

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Oct 15, 2014; Kansas City, MO, USA; Kansas City Royals owner David Glass (right) is presented with the American League championship trophy after game four of the 2014 ALCS playoff baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Kauffman Stadium. The Royals swept the Orioles to advance to the World Series. Mandatory Credit: Peter G. Aiken-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 15, 2014; Kansas City, MO, USA; Kansas City Royals owner David Glass (right) is presented with the American League championship trophy after game four of the 2014 ALCS playoff baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Kauffman Stadium. The Royals swept the Orioles to advance to the World Series. Mandatory Credit: Peter G. Aiken-USA TODAY Sports /

The 2014 MLB World Series will feature a mix of familiar and new faces between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals, but here are four things you need to know before the series starts on Tuesday.

Admit it, you didn’t expect the Kansas City Royals or the San Francisco Giants to be in the World Series when the season started in late March. It’s OK, I readily admit I thought these two wouldn’t be in the Series until as recently as the their respective ALDS and NLDS victories.

That said, it’s been a hell of a ride this MLB postseason, and in an otherwise odd year for baseball, it seems fitting that two good but oddball teams will face off for the title.

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For San Francisco, this is familiar territory, as the Giants are playoff regulars, and won the World Series in 2010 and 2012. That said, World Series experience is no guarantee of a ring, so ignore what the old sportswriters will wax poetic about if the Giants start dominating. They took care of business against one of the favorites in the NL (the Washington Nationals) and then cruised against the St. Louis Cardinals.

For Kansas City, the entire postseason has been one giant party. The Royals famously ended their 29-year postseason drought by making the Wild Card, and haven’t lost since, beating the Oakland Athletics in that game, and then sweeping the Los Angeles Angels and Baltimore Orioles. KC has surprised again and again this postseason run, and needs four more wins to make it one for the ages.

With those tidbits in mind, here’s four things you need to know about the 2014 World Series:

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