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The Royals puppy woman wasn't around during team's wild comeback

Nick Bromberg
·College football and motorsports writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – During Tuesday night's wild card game between the A's and Royals, the TBS camera briefly focused on a Royals fan who was holding a sign with an interesting proposition.

If the Royals won the game, the man she was with would buy her a real, live puppy.

The offer quickly went viral on the Internet and the puppy was often mentioned during a classic game that the Royals would end up winning 9-8 in 12 innings.

While the Royals were leading by a run at the time she was on camera, the Royals soon gave up five runs in the top of the sixth and trailed the game 7-3. The woman's hopes for a puppy were looking bleak.

But the Royals stormed back to tie the game at at 7-7 with three runs in the bottom of the eighth and a run in the bottom of the ninth. After the game went into extra innings, we went to go look for the woman to see how she was dealing with the roller coaster ride at Kauffman Stadium. (We also wanted to tell her "adopt, don't shop" but that's another topic for another blog post.)

Based off the concrete pillar in the picture and the dark sky in the background, we reasoned that she was in the left field area. Sure enough, we showed her picture to fans in section 208. Upon seeing the picture, the fans in the front rows immediately recognized her and turned and looked three rows back and pointed to ... an empty bank of seats.

She had been sitting behind them but was now gone.

While we understand the four-run deficit the Royals faced might have seemed insurmountable, who would leave a playoff game early that can still be tied with a home run? And how do you do it with a potential Corgi puppy on the line?

The Royals hadn't been in the playoffs for 29 years and there's a pet hanging in the balance. You can't just get up and bail unless you're moving to standing room only sections for some reason or have something like a medical emergency.

So we have no idea if the woman was around to see Salvador Perez win both the game for the Royals  and a puppy for her home with a hit down the left field line.

Even still, we hope she gets the puppy and gives it a good name. Salvy has a nice ring to it.

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Nick Bromberg is the editor of From The Marbles on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at nickbromberg@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!