KANSAS CITY, Mo. The questions asked in the Royals clubhouse after the Giants'7-1 victory in Game 1 of the World Series varied a bit in wording, but most of them were driving at the same general point: How would the players react to losing this baseball game?Think about that for just a moment. Aaron Ness Jersey MORE: | | | | | Think about how bizarre it would have been, even a few weeks ago, to wonder whether a Royals player would be able to deal with losing a baseball game. The Royals.Thats what October has done. Because Ned Yosts team started this crazy postseason the crazy hasnt been limited to Kansas City, of course with eight consecutive shocking wins against a collection of the best teams in baseball, all of a sudden its reasonable to wonder how the Royals would deal with a lo s. The Royals NHL Washington Capitals Jersey .Remember, these players have learned to deal with a few lo ses in their careers without having their souls crushed.FOX SPORTS: |Look at the 2011 Royals, a squad that lost 91 games. The core of position players on that team was pretty similar to the core of this playoff team: Alex Gordon, Billy Butler and Alcides Escobar were established big leaguers, and Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas were rookies getting an extended taste of life in the majors.And the 2012 Royals lost Madison Bowey Jersey 90 games. Those five were part of that team, too, and Salvador Perez, Lorenzo Cain and Jarrod Dyson joined the group, not to mention pitchers Greg Holland, Kelvin Herrera, Jeremy Guthrie and Tim Collins.How will they deal with losing? Theyll be just fine. Lots of practice, yknow?But what about losing in the playoffs? Wont that be different?SN'S MLB AWARDS: | | | We havent Jaromir Jagr Jersey experienced that yet, Hosmer said, to randomly select one response to the line of questioning after the game, so we can probably tell you that tomorrow. But you treat it just like any other game. Weve all lost heartbreaking games throughout the year. Obviously, this ones in the postseason and its a bigger game, but its nothing we havent been through before. Were all profe sionals.Up until a few weeks ago, of course, these guys had never dealt with Alex Ovechkin Jersey playing in a postseason game, but theyve handled that pretty well. And they dealt with being down by four runs in the eighth inning of a win-or-go-home wild-card contest pretty Martin Fehervary Jersey well, too.But still, the dominant question in the clubhouse was how the Royals would handle their first lo s of the postseason, in Game 1 of the first World Series contest played in Kansas City since 1985. The Royals.This is the reality of playoff baseball in October 2014. Isn't it fun?