Game 85 Thread: Battle for Grass Creek 2025

A battle for the soul of Wyoming

On April 27, 2007, Royals Review founder Will McDonald penned a tongue-in-cheek article about the Mariners/Royals lineup. The comments are lost. The images he lovingly created in Microsoft Paint? Also lost.

But the text, yes, the text remains. Will talked about the war tearing the area apart, and focused on Grass Creek, Wyoming, 945 miles away from Seattle and 948 miles away from Kansas City. The Royals/Mariner games, he said, were the Battle for Grass Creek, the midpoint way station between the two teams.

It is that day. Tonight, the Royals and Michael Wacha will travel to Seattle to face the Mariners and George Kirby. The Royals, a team on the downfall. The Mariners, a team on a cautious upswing, and most importantly the holders of the third Wild Card.

Sweep the Mariners and the Royals might get to within two games of a Wild Card spot. Get swept and, well, they’ll be over seven out. Yikes. Big, big series here.

Royals lineup

Mariners lineup