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Camden Yards in Baltimore at night, one of the MLB's most distinctive ballparks
The scene for last night's first game in the ALCS, with the Orioles hosting the Royals
The Royals took a 4-0 lead in the third inning and the Orioles replied with a run of their own
In the fifth, the Royals went 5-1 up before, towards the end of pitcher James Shields' starting shift the Orioles squared it up at 5-5
Both bullpens were unhittable. Wade Davis, of the Royals especially, pitching the 8th and 9th, 18 pitches, 15 strikes and ultimately the win
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and after nine regulation innings it was extra innings time. For the Royals, the fourth extra innings game in the post-season so far
In the tenth innings Alex Gordon homered
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and Mike Moustakis hit, scoring two.
8-5 ahead, closer Greg Holland came in, gave up a run and with two further potential runs on base struck out the last batsman to give the Royals the first game of the seven game series 8-6
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The Royals have played 8 extra innings this #postseason – and have outscored the opposition 9-2.
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The Royals are the 1st team in Major League history to win 4 extra-inning games in a single postseason.
Game 2 is tonight at 8pm Eastern
I am not really doing these games justice, and of course since the demise of ESPN America there's no access to it on UK screens for people to get into it as they would, say, for the NFL but, as a huge underdog, the Royals have been adopted by many neutral Americans, and the atmosphere at this games is something else
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Ryan Moore collects on 7-1 and 11-2 shots to go four clear of Richard Hughes in the jockeys' championship.
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In Sochi Hamilton was 0.8 secs ahead of the field in FP2, with Rosberg 4th. Race-sim averages: Hamilton 0.495secs quicker than Rosberg. Bottas quicker than both (but a shorter run). McLaren pace looks strong with both Magnussen and Button mixing it. I note Magnussen is 8-1 to podium, which was interesting (Button 9/2) and both Red Bull drivers (red bull do not look competitve here) shorter in the market
Qualifying today
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Latest forecast update: Con 301, Lab 287, LD 24, SNP 13, UKIP 3. More details at
http://electionforecast.co.uk.
6/5 a hung parliament is around the place, which strikes me as a very very good price
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