Clint Hurdle doesn't believe the long layoff will negatively affect the Kansas City Royals in the World Series this week.

The Royals will have had five full days of rest when they begin play against the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night. Kansas City is 8-0 in the playoffs to this point.

Hurdle travelled a similar road in 2007 as manager of the Colorado Rockies, who paid for their postseason perfection by showing up flat after a long layoff for the World Series. They were swept by the Boston Red Sox.

Those Rockies, however, had eight days off between finishing off the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League Championship Series on Oct. 15, 2007, and opening the World Series in Boston on Oct. 24.

"It was a challenge we weren't ready to handle -- and we tried everything," Hurdle said. "We didn't apologize for sweeping [the NL playoff series], but it led to way more time off than we needed. It was almost like a mini-Spring Training. We tried everything: We played simulated games, actual squad games with umpires and everything, did the whole thing."