Yost guided the AL to a 6-3 victory in Cincinnati behind MVP Mike Trout, and Kansas City finished the season with a better record than Toronto to earn home-field advantage throughout the American League playoffs.
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That Gold Glove defense led by Eric Hosmer bungled several key plays.
They need to fix a lot on the fly, and here’s a sampling… An excited crowd stood on its feet for long stretches to cheer on the rainy night.
He decided a few weeks ago that Royals fans needed a hand signal that would go well with their basic “go Royals” greeting. The teams are playing in the 2015 World Series.
Despite suffering losses in the first two World Series matches, the New York Mets are confident of surprising the Kansas City Royals when they meet in Game 3 on Friday.
“The fans are electric”, he said about the postseason.
It will be power against power, as the Royals have been Major League Baseball’s best hitters against fastballs of 95 mph-plus. Facing the light-hitting Alex Rios, deGrom grooved a high fastball, allowing Rios to crack a solid single to left, putting runners on first and second. It will be interesting to see if he has any more success in getting Royals to swing and miss than his rotation-mates did.
“We’ve been sitting here raving the last two series that he’s gotten himself out of trouble”, Collins said afterward.
“Even if you have a short memory, we just beat an excellent Cubs team four games in a row”, David Wright told reporters after the game. Pitch location was the issue for deGrom.
“At first it was a little odd because I didn’t know most of the guys, but I became comfortable quickly”, Cueto said. If you want to throw me inside, you can throw me down. “They keep the line moving”. However, the series shifts to Queens for the next three games, and the Mets believe they can right the ship, especially considering the last Mets team to win the World Series also got off to an 0-2 start.
The Mets are a good team.
As for the timely hitting Johnson talked about, he said it starts with New York second baseman Daniel Murphy.
From the very first pitch, the 2015 World Series was bound to be a roller coaster affair between two unlikely teams.
NOTES: The National Anthem was sung by Long Island pop superstar Billy Joel, who performed the final concerts at Shea Stadium in 2008 and sang the Anthem at the opener of the Mets-Yankees Subway Series in 2000.
Pitching on Halloween eve, Syndergaard recovered from a scary start and went six innings, giving the Mets the winning performance they didn’t get from fellow young starters Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom at Kauffman Stadium. Escobar then proceeded to stab helplessly at the first two offerings from deGrom, quickly falling behind 0-2.
Ben Zobrist’s grounder advanced the runners, and Lorenzo Cain fouled off four pitches before a fly out to short center. Paulo Orlando, the first Brazil-born player to appear in a World Series, followed with a sacrifice fly against Addison Reed, and Escobar tripled in a run.
As mentioned earlier, nobody other than Duda managed a hit against Cueto, and the Mets could have scored more despite their 11 hits in Game 1.
“His name was mentioned to open up the World Series”.
Royals general manager Dayton Moore said he hadn’t heard much about the Marlins Man before he got involved raising money for the firefighters.
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“Right now we can’t think about the hole that we’re in”.
