Missouri Baseball Is Busy With Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals In Tight Spots

If there’s one team in baseball over the past two seasons that know how to seize an opportunity, it would be difficult to argue that anyone does it better than the Kansas City Royals. After last year’s miraculous World Series run, their 2015 season was near over before Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa misplayed a double play ball that gave the Royals life.

Kansas City was down 5-2 and then exploded for five runs in the eighth inning and poured on two more in the ninth to win with a final score of 9-6. Eric Hosmer had two hits and three RBI and Salvador Perez followed closely with two RBI.

On the secondary market, Royals tickets for the win-or-go-home Game 5 against the Astros at Kauffman Stadium have an average price of $406.50 with a get-in price of $158. On Wednesday night, October 14th, the Royals are planning to throw out Johnny Cueto who was the Royals’ big midseason acquisition before the trade deadline. Cueto was knocked around in Game 2 as the Royals bats bailed him out in a 5-4 win. The Astros are throwing Collin McHugh, who had his first postseason start of his career in Game 1 when he threw six solid innings in the victory. McHugh is 2-0 with a 1.38 ERA in 13 innings pitched against the Royals this season.

In the National League, Cardinals fans will have to travel to Chicago to see if their season continues in Game 4 against the Cubs. The Cubs slugged their way to the 8-6 Game 3 victory and are on the brink of advancing to the next round. St. Louis fans can use Hipmunk.com for Chicago flight deals, in addition to finding a cheap hotel in Chicago on Hipmunk starting from $96 to complete the trip.

Saving on traveling is important due to the fact the Cubs are raising the level of demand with high secondary market ticket prices for the NLDS and a possible appearance in the NLCS. According to TiqIQ.com, the four home games for the Cubs in the National League Championship Series all have average ticket prices of over $1,400. The four-game average of the games at Wrigley Field for the NLCS is currently $1,656.82. Game 4 of the NLDS on October 13th has an average price of $384.40 and a get-in price of $161.

With the Royals hosting a Game 5 and the Cardinals playing for their season to continue, it’s a busy baseball time in the Missouri area.