It opened with the Royals’ Alcides Escobar’s inside-the-park home run – with the help of a few slapdash glovesmanship by Yoenis Cespedes – on the first pitch from the Met’s Matt Harvey. DeGrom is 3-0 in the postseason with a 1.80 ERA, while Cueto is 1-1 in playoff starts with a robust 7.88 ERA-so the pitching matchup clearly favors the Mets.
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On a night when the start of the National Basketball Association season-and a Steph Curry heat check-threatened to take the spotlight, the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals stole the show in Game 1 of the World Series.
Daniel Volquez was 63 and died in the Dominican Republic from complications of a heart condition, MLB.com reported.
– Kansas City Star columnist Vahe Gregorian writes about the Royals honoring the request of pitcher Edinson Volquez’s family not to reveal to him that Volquez’s father had died earlier that day.
Moore told Yost of Daniel Volquez’s death an hour before the game, but was provided specific instructions by the family that Volquez would not be told until after the game.
Tuesday’s night’s Game 1 was not a bad way to start the World Series, even if it did end on Wednesday morning. Because the Royals asked them not to, after the family asked the team not to tell him. And he was fine. As word spread before Game 1 of the elder Volquez’s death, ESPNdeportes reporter Enrique Rojas wrote that Volquez knew about his father’s passing before coming to the game. In 2014, the Royals missed their chance as the they were defeated by The San Francisco Giants for the title.
Harvey allowed three earned runs on five hits, struck out two batters and gave up a pair of walks through six innings of work, while Volquez also pitched six innings, giving up three earned runs on six hits, fanning three and walking one. It’s unclear when he will return to the team.
He is the second Royals pitcher who has lost his father in a month.
Young, his eyes tearing up discussing it after the game, said he felt the presence of his father, Charles during every pitch of the game.
Jarring as it was in itself, the impact surely was compounded by it being part of a mournful recent trend for the Royals, three of whom now (including third baseman Mike Moustakas and parent Chris Young) have suffered the loss of a parent in recent weeks.
On Tuesday night, Edinson Volquez stood on the mound of his home stadium.
“We found out about an hour before, and we said, ‘What do you want us to do?'” Yost said. “I remember Chris just went through it, Mous went through it with his mom”. It’s a very, very tough thing, especially right before you’re about to go out and pitch.
The 11-year veteran warmed up as if nothing was amiss on a misty evening in Kansas City, then marched to the mound for his World Series debut as the crowd roared.
Though Yost had told Young to get in the mindset to make an emergency start if Volquez learned the news, the news was not widely known on the team before the game. “And he would have to pick up the slack”. “Volquey sent me a text saying, ‘Thank you guys, for winning that game for me'”.
But after he retired catcher Salvador Perez on a ground out, Royals left fielder Alex Gordon hit a towering fly ball well over the wall in deep center field to knot the score at sold-out Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.
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“We found out about it before the game, and wishes of the family (were), ‘Let Eddie pitch, ‘ ” Yost said. In the locker room during the celebration we all talked about it. That’s tough.
