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Johnny Cueto puts Kansas City Royals in commanding lead
The 29-year-old dreadlocked Dominican held a New York lineup that had belted at least one home run in 10 consecutive playoff games to the fewest hits in a playoff game in Mets history.
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Game 2 – though advertised as such – didn’t come with the theater and drama that Game 1 encompassed.
Final score in Game 2 as the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets, taking a 2-0 lead in the World Series.
Cueto, added by the Royals in a trade deadline deal in July, retired 15 batters in a row before giving up a two-out walk to Daniel Murphy in the ninth before getting Yoenis Cespedes to fly out to right to end it. Since the beginning of the postseason, Escobar has led off 12 games for the Royals and has reached base safely in 6 of those at bats.
“We’re not hitting. That’s what I see”, Collins said. Meantime, teams down 3-0 in a best-of-seven go on to prevail just 2.9 percent of the time (the 2004 Red Sox are of course the lone example of this happening).
Matt Harvey was strong for five innings against the Royals in Game 1 before fading in the sixth. “When you realize that your bullpen is pretty much spent and they’re pretty much burned out, he pretty much went out there and put the team on his back”. “We’ve got to do a better job of using the field to hit”.
It’s not a strategy that’s new to the Royals, but it’s never stopped working.
Speaking of that Royals’ offense…. However, they have proved why they are one of the most hard lineups to deal with in these two wins. “We find ways to just keep putting the ball in play until you find holes”.
A chuckling group of Mets marveled at Syndergaard’s sizzling fastballs the day before the Series opener – but now they’ve placed the heat squarely on their rookie starter.
By doing so, the Royals reserved Kris Medlen for long relief the next three games.
“We don’t swing and miss”, Kansas City manager Ned Yost said.
This is the most surprising development in this series. The Royals posses a great bullpen, which is supposed to be where they were going to win games against the Mets. New York clearly had the advantage in terms of starting pitchers coming in, but that advantage has yet to come to fruition. Included was the pressure of facing the Dodgers in Game 5 of the NLDS in his first career relief appearance. Also similar is that they blew leads in both Game 1 games. And if you saw that Game 5 against the Toronto Blue Jays, Cueto was abysmal. And the pesky Kansas City Royals kept fouling off Jacob deGrom’s best pitches, wearing him down with persistence and prowess. Volquez said he learned about his father’s death when he stepped off the mound after allowing three runs over six innings.
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The game will be available online via the FOX Sports Go app, with authentication required via a television provider. New York was 1-3-2 in series against AL opponents during the regular season. The Royals’ rotation isn’t almost as deep, but that whole roster looks hungry for the title, so they could surprise everyone and continue to pitch well. They came from fans young and old, wearing faux dreadlocks and toting homemade signs that said, “Johnny Be Good!”