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The New York Mets and Kansas City Royals took very different paths this season, but both franchises have reached the pinnacle of baseball with an opportunity to win the 2015 World Series starting on Tuesday from Kauffman Stadium. 

Fingers will be pointed in all directions now that Toronto fell short in its quest for World Series glory, losing the American League Championship Series to Kansas City in six games.

Here's a stat for Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost to remember during his second straight World Series: 0.85. That's Wade Davis' impeccable ERA this year, making the reliever someone who ought to pitch with the game on the line.

OK, so I turned off Game 6 as soon as Fox TV declared in the seventh inning that the Kansas City Royals had already won.

Nothing happened after that, right?

Hey, good for Fox. We all needed the extra sleep and an early start on figuring out how the unstoppable Royals are going to deal with the unstoppable Daniel Murphy.

After a dominating sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series, the New York Mets are the early favorites to win their first championship since 1986, according to Odds Shark.

The Mets narrowly edged the Kansas City Royals in the most updated odds, released before the end of the American League Championship Series. 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Take the crown. Seize the crown. Keep the crown. Call it what you want.

But as the night darkened and the rain fell and manager Ned Yost stepped into another October moment that left second-guessers howling at the moon, one thing was crystal clear:

There was absolutely no way the Kansas City Royals were going to surrender their American League crown.

On Friday, the Kansas City Royals punched their second consecutive World Series ticket on the strength of closer Wade Davis, who picked up the win with a gutsy, rain-delayed, 1.2-inning performance.

So that's the obvious angle: The Royals win the pennant again thanks to their dominant, shutdown relief corps.

It was stressful, but the Kansas City Royals defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 4-3, in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Friday night to clinch back-to-back AL pennants. 

The Fall Classic is officially set. The Kansas City Royals will meet the New York Mets in the World Series after a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in a clinching ALCS Game 6. 

Kansas City managed to break a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the eighth, thanks to Eric Hosmer's one-out single, scoring Lorenzo Cain from first. 

The Kansas City Royals downed the Toronto Blue Jays, 4-3, in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Friday night to win the pennant, and shortstop Alcides Escobar was presented with ALCS MVP honors at the postgame podium.