Gordon scored from second on a hit by Alcides Escobar.
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As for the timely hitting Johnson talked about, he said it starts with New York second baseman Daniel Murphy.
Yost has penciled in an identical lineup for each of the Royals’ 13 playoff games. Zobrist was acquired from the Oakland A’s just prior to the July 31 trade deadline.
“My main focus is being to pitch to my strengths and be able to execute all my pitches and just focus on winning one pitch at a time”, Syndergaard said, adding that he must stay calm in what he expects will be a charged atmosphere. He is hitting. 315 (17-for-54) with two home runs and six RBIs in the postseason. ‘Last year we took a 2-1 lead in San Francisco and were feeling pretty good about ourselves’. With the win, the Mets cut the Royals series lead to 2-1.
Johnny Cueto of the Kansas City Royals warms up prior to Game One of the 2015 World Series against the New York Mets at Kauffman Stadium on October 27, 2015 in Kansas City, Missouri.
“We can’t think about the hole that we’re in”. This is just another challenge that we have to meet and so far we’ve met them all. “It will be nice to get to our park, you know, our house”.
With his first pitch, Syndergaard threw a 98 miles per hour high fastball up and in that went to the backstop, and dropped Escobar to the ground as the crowd at Citi Field roared in approval. We need to treat all thesegames like they’re must-wins.
“I feel like it really made a statement to start the game off”, Syndergaard said. The last AL pitcher to do that in the World Series was Boston’s Jim Lonborg, in Game 2 of the 1967 Fall Classic against St. Louis.
The KU basketball program is preparing to move its exhibition opener against Pittsburg State to avoid a potential conflict with Game 7 of the World Series in Kansas City. Curtis Granderson also homered, and he and Travis d’Arnaud had two hits apiece. The other hit came from Jeremy Guthrie, who is not on the postseason roster. Chris Young (11-6, 3.06 ERA in the regular season) will take the hill for the Royals despite throwing 53 pitches in relief in Game 1.
The Royals still lead Major League Baseball’s best-of-7 final 2-1 with game four on Saturday in New York.
Congrats to the Royals on their bittersweet win! The Mets would later break the game open against the Kansas City bullpen with a wild four-run sixth inning that included the most awkward fielder’s choice you’ll ever see.
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Playing under National League rules at the Mets’ ballpark means pitchers will bat for the American League champion Royals while designated hitter Kendrys Morales, who had 22 home runs and batted in 106 runs this season, will be reduced to a pinch-hitting role or have to replace another fielder while seldom-batting pitchers must take their swings.
