In Game 7, the Royals jumped out to an early lead and did not relinquish it, winning by a 6–2 score to secure the pennant.
This was the last time the Royals won the AL pennant until 2014, where they swept the Baltimore Orioles before falling in the World Series.
In Game 4, Tudor pitched seven solid innings as the Cardinals blew out the Dodgers by ten runs to tie the series at two.
Game 5 remained tied until the bottom of the ninth, when St. Louis' Ozzie Smith hit a walk-off home run to give the Cardinals a 3–2 win and a 3–2 series lead headed back to Los Angeles.
The Dodgers returned to the postseason in 1988, where they upset the New York Mets in seven games in the NLCS en route to a World Series title.
Game 6 of the series was marred by a controversial call in which first batter and pinch-hitter Jorge Orta, sent a chopping bouncer to the right of Jack Clark.
TV replays - not used by officials for play review until 2008 - indicated that Orta should have been called out, and an argument ensued on the field.
The Cardinals argued briefly[26] but as crew chief and believing he had made the correct call, Denkinger would not reverse it.
In his book You're Missing a Great Game, Herzog wrote that he later wished he had asked Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who was in attendance, to overrule the call and declare Orta out.
In Game 7, Saberhagen pitched a five-hit complete-game shutout as the Royals embarrassed the Cardinals, 11–0, to secure the title.
Their next postseason appearance would come in 2014, where they returned to the World Series, but narrowly lost to the San Francisco Giants in seven games.