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Kid News. Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Friday

October 4th, 2024.

And we begin with an unlikely baseball team striking fear in the hearts of rivals.

The Kansas City Royals lost 106 games last year, only to bounce back this season with enough wins to get them

into the wild card round where they just swept the Baltimore Orioles.

Next stop is Yankee Stadium to face Aaron Judge in game one of the American League Division

series tomorrow. As the New York Times noted, the Royals don't make the playoffs

often just four times since 1985, but when they do they rarely lose. The last three times

the Royals were in the post-season they made it all the way to the World Series.

It's an amazing story of Father series.

It's an amazing story of fatherly love and dad determination.

David Jones of South Carolina had to ditch his car and hoof it 30 miles through neighborhoods decimated by Helene so that he could walk

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