Who do the Kansas City Royals play the rest of the 2014 season?
By Hayden Kane
The Kansas City Royals enter the final week of the 2014 regular season with the widest range of potential outcomes. Along with the Detroit Tigers, the Royals could find themselves in the playoffs as a division champion, playing in the one-game Wild Card round, or out of the postseason completely.
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As things stand Monday morning, the Royals are 1.5 games back of the Detroit Tigers in the American League Central. They are 0.5 games back of the Oakland Athletics for the top Wild Card spot and 1.5 games ahead of the Seattle Mariners of the second Wild Card spot.
Who do the Royals play the rest of the season? This is the time of year for scoreboard watching, so here are the opponents for the Royals for the upcoming week of action.
Starting Monday, the Royals play at the Cleveland Indians for three games. That series starts in strange fashion, however, as the Royals and Indians have to conclude their August 31st game that was postponed in the 10th inning.
The Royals are down 4-2 in the bottom of the 10th of that game, raising the strange possibility that they could have a walk-off win at Progressive Field in Cleveland. After that series with the Indians, Kansas City concludes its regular season schedule with a four-game series on the road against the Chicago White Sox.
If the Royals are going to finally reach the postseason and meet the high expectations they have set for themselves the past couple years, they will have to do so by playing good baseball on the road against divisional opponents in the final week of the season.
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