With the score tied 1-1 in the middle of the fourth inning, the Fox broadcast came back from commercial, briefly showed a view of the stadium, and then switched to a screen that simply said the network was having “technical difficulties”.
Advertisement
Game 1 of the World Series gave a lot of people memories of the 2013 Super Bowl as play stopped for a while due to an outage.
The victor: Both team names are true to their cities, but Kansas City gets the nod here because how many teams are at least partially named after a rodeo? Daniel Murphy has been a one-man wrecking crew, with seven homers, including one each in a record-setting six straight games.
The Mets were named after an earlier New York team called the Metropolitans. The Royals wear Kansas City Monarchs throwbacks at least once each season, but how cool would it be if they wore them for a World Series game?
The Mets posted a photo on their Facebook page Sunday of Granderson with a thumb wrapped as he boarded the team bus ahead of the trip to Kansas City. Toronto was in a dreamworld for the next couple of months as the most exciting team in the league went 43-18 to close out the regular season and grace the postseason with the second-best record in the AL.
For the Mets, the ubiquitous New York hot dog gets the nod, even if it’s made from processed meat.
The Mets swept the Cubs in just four games and took the pennant in spectacular fashion.
“I think that I would be reluctant to begin a game or – even more reluctant to begin the warmup process if I didn’t think we could play a substantial portion of that game”, Manfred said.
The Mets are 6-2 this postseason when their starting pitcher tosses at least five innings. He spent this season at Double-A Northwest Arkansas, hitting.
The next day during the World Series that now has rain in the forecast is Game 7 on November 4 in Kansas City.
The rest can go back to ignoring the game for another year.
Advertisement
As for the Royals, 20-year-old infielder Raul Mondesi Jr.-who is the son of longtime Major League outfielder Raul Mondesi-is on the roster over speedy outfielder Terrance Gore. But he didn’t sign and was picked by the New York Mets in the second phase that June. But while the Royals hitting does not seem imposing, they seem to constantly find ways to win, as when Lorenzo Cain scored the game-winning run from first on a single in the final ALCS game.
