Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Los Angeles Angels and Kansas City Royals continue their best-of-five American League Division Series with Game 3 action live from Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. The game can be live streamed for free here. Los Angeles fans can hear all of the action on KLAA 830 while Kansas City fans can do the same on KCSP 610.
Los Angeles is on the ropes having lost the first two games of this series at home in extra innings and will have to win three straight games -- including two on the road -- to win this set while Kansas City is looking to pick up a sweep of the series to get into the ALCS for the first time since 1985.
The Angels won the most games in baseball (98) and scored the most runs (773) in the regular season, but they've been held to just three runs in the series thus far while the Royals have had three big extra-inning game wins thus far this postseason, with the first dating back to the AL Wild-Card Game win over the Oakland Athletics.
Friday night, the hero was Eric Hosmer, who belted a go-ahead two-run homer as Kansas City marched on to a 4-1 victory and 2-0 series lead over the Angels.
"That's what the cool part of this run has been -- everyone's had their time," Hosmer told MLB.com. "They've had their moment when they've made a big play or stepped up and did something big."
The Royals will send "Big Game James" to the hill tonight as James Shields (14-8, 3.21 ERA) takes the ball in Game 3 while the Angels hopes cling to pitcher C.J. Wilson, who went 13-10 with a 4.51 ERA this season.
While Shields has a "Big Game" moniker, he actually owns a 2-4 record and 5.26 ERA in the postseason.
The Angels know the odds aren't on their side as only five of the 44 teams to climb into an 0-2 hole in division series history have been able to come back from it since 1995.
"We've got to be relaxed," Angels center fielder Mike Trout told MLB.com. "We can't play Sunday tight. We've got to be loose. We've got to go out there and leave it all on the line."
Trout is still looking for his first-career postseason hit as he is 0-for-10 thus far in the series.
The Angels try to avoid a sweep and will look to get into this series on the road while the Royals look to sweep the ALDS and punch their first ticket to the ALDS for the first time in nearly three decades
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