No Central tiebreaker, but KC hosts Wild Card Game

Sunday’s regular-season finale against the White Sox, which turned out to be a 6-4 Royals victory at U.S. Cellular Field, became rather meaningless in the large scheme of things. Now all the preparations are for Tuesday night’s AL Wild Card Game against the A’s (7:07 p.m. CT,, TBS), the Royals’ first postseason game since 1985.