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Kauffman Stadium was rocking Tuesday night at the Kansas City Royals tried to rally back from a 4-run deficit in their American League Wild Card playoff against the Oakland A’s.
Kansas City chased A’s starter Jon Lester and trimmed the deficit from 7-3 to 7-6. The Royals were threatening for more, but reliever Luke Gregerson came up with back-to-back strikeouts to end the threat and send Oakland to the ninth with a one-run lead.
Huge inning by Luke Gregerson! A's up 7-6 going to the 9th. #OAKtober
— #OAKtober (@Athletics) October 1, 2014
Luke Gregerson escapes! He strikes out Salvador Perez and Omar Infante to get out of 8th-inning jam.
A’s lead heading into 9th, 7-6.
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) October 1, 2014
Luke. Gregerson. Dug deep and found something. What an escape. #Athletics hanging on, 7-6 after 8. #Royals impressive on base paths again.
— Kevin Gehl (@KevinGehlWLNS) October 1, 2014
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