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It has been a postseason that's defied all logic, so of course Game 1 of the ALCS would be a game that made no sense. It was the Royals' fourth extra-inning win this playoffs and the third time this postseason the team has won on a go-ahead home run in extra innings. ​"These games, we’ve played so many of them that we’re kind of used to them a little bit," Royals manager Ned Yost said moments after Kansas City's 8-6 win in 10 innings, a 4-hour, 37-minute drama. Gordon, Moustakas power Royals to ALCS Game 1 win over Orioles

On a 1-1 count, he saw a 87-mph fastball pitch and rocked it over the right field scoreboard and into a sea of orange, the ball landing near where Gordon's name is engraved in the ground. "Just get on base any way you can," he told himself. At 12:17 a.m., leading off the top of the 10th in a 5-5 game, Gordon stepped up to the plate against Darren O’Day as a steady rain fell. He had already hit a broken-bat three-run double three hours earlier and made a spectacular catch in left field. What they got was an ALCS Game 1 with enough drama to fill all those empty years, a game with more dramatic twists and preposterous turns than an overwrought telenovela - a game that became "The Alex Gordon Show."

They came to the ballyard for a party, a celebration of the Orioles' first ALCS appearance since '97. They packed Eutaw Street and danced to that 1970s ditty, "Orioles Magic." They waved their orange towels and filled the park with chants of “Let’s Go O’s!" They cheered as they watched old clips flicker on the scoreboard before the game. BALTIMORE - They squeezed into the ballpark wearing bright orange.