Royals one win from World Series
— -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Jarrod Dyson is an Olympic-caliber fast talker with no filter between the thoughts that enter his head and the words that leave his mouth. But the guy with the word "Zoom'' shaved into the side of his scalp sure has a firm grasp of baseball current events.
Kansas City's brash and diplomatically impaired outfielder has insisted for days that the American League Championship Series is a fait accompli. After the Royals won two straight in Baltimore, Dyson said the series wouldn't be returning to Camden Yards for a Game 6. Then he insisted if the Royals went up three games in the series, the Orioles would be so disheartened they would start thinking about aches and pains, family vacations and the monumental odds of trying to buck history.
Now, suddenly, we're here. The Royals are one win away from their first trip to the World Series in 29 years. And the Orioles, to quote Hal Holbrook in "Wall Street," are looking into the abyss.
The countdown to the inevitable began in the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday night, when Billy Butler's sacrifice fly scored Dyson to give Kansas City a one-run lead in Game 3 of the ALCS. Kansas City manager Ned Yost summoned the firm of Herrera, Davis and Holland to record the final nine outs, and the Royals beat the Orioles 2-1 to take a daunting 3-0 lead in the series.
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