Royals complete another comeback in Game 4 win

— -- NEW YORK -- The Kansas City Royals have a knack for tormenting opponents, toying with the fan base's emotions and wringing every bit of drama from each victory as they strive for the franchise's first title in 30 years.

Regardless of what happens from here, they have already eclipsed the foremost baseball juggernaut in recent memory. After the Royals rallied to beat the New York Mets 5-3 in World Series Game 4 on Saturday, the Elias Sports Bureau checked the archives and bestowed these Royals with a legacy and a niche: With six comeback victories from at least two runs down this postseason, the Royals broke the previous MLB record of five, held by the 1996 New York Yankees.

It remains to be seen if Mike Moustakas will squeeze a popup for the final out of the season, as Charlie Hayes did 19 years ago, or if Lorenzo Cain will celebrate from the back of a mounted police horse, a la Wade Boggs. But if the Royals are destined to be mentioned in the same breath as another club, the 1996 Yankees are one heck of a comparable.

"Sure, they are," second baseman Ben Zobrist said. "They won, didn't they?"