They dropped the 1999 NLCS and 2000 World Series.
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Third baseman Mike Moustakas’ tie-breaking RBI single highlighted a three-run eighth inning Saturday night that lifted the Kansas City Royals to a 5-3 win over the New York Mets in Game 4 of the World Series at Citi Field.
First Pitch: 8:07 p.m. The starting pitcher for the Royals is former Met Chris Young who is 1-0 with a 2.31 ERA. He became the sixth Mets player to hit two homers in a postseason game.
Royals manager Ned Yost bristled when asked whether a mistake like that should not happen at this level. These guys are totally confident in their abilities. If that’s the plan, I think that’s a stupid plan. Young stepped into the KC Royals rotation in mid-May when the team lost three starters to injury and returned to the bullpen when the Royals acquired Johnny Cueto at the trade deadline.
Eric Hosmer hit a slow chopper to Murphy, who charged in and simply whiffed on the play. Murphy, who would’ve only had a play at first, appeared to glance at the runner and failed to get his mitt down.
“Our pen is in great shape”, Yost said. “I didn’t do the job”.
“We’re on off hours, so there’s not much traffic”, Matz said Friday afternoon.
Surely no one in the silenced Citi Field stands expected this scary ending.
So, too, is pitching for the Mets in the playoffs. He just wasn’t sharp today. “Just kind of woke us up a little bit”.
Daniel Murphy hasn’t looked like the same hitter we saw in the first two rounds of the playoffs and things went from bad to worse last night as he was hitless in four at-bats. Clippard took the loss. He has slumped in the Fall Classic but had a one-out infield single in the ninth.
Yoenis Cespedes was doubled off first base to end the game. The ball sailed all the way to the backstop, and the skinny Kansas City shortstop went down to the dirt on his rear end.
Syndergaard singled leading off the third ahead of Granderson’s second homer of the Series. With one out and Wilmer Flores on third base, Curtis Granderson lfted a soft fly ball Rios’s way. “You can’t give good teams opportunities to score extra runs, because they can do it”, Collins said. “But what do you do?”
“There’s no way to describe it. It hurts when you feel like you got a direct hand in a ballgame”, Murphy said. You have to compete. Judging by the comments after the game on Friday night, the Kansas City players are none too pleased. After a video review of 2 minutes, 22 seconds by umpire Bill Welke, the safe call on the field was allowed to stand.
Kansas City’s luck started to turn at the top of the 5 when Alex Gordon hit a single on a line drive for Salvador Perez to score, and the 6th, with Lorenzo Cain hitting a single and Ben Zobrist scoring. The Mets are likely favored because they are playing at home and they scored nine runs in Game 3 and have started to hit.
But the unpredictable Ventura gave the lead right back, allowing a two-run homer to David Wright. So we double-switched there in case we could get out of that early with Herrara and then send him back out.
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“The experience I’m sure for him is invaluable, because he’s going to be a big part of this rotation next year”, Wright said. “I just thought it was a real big game for us”. If they have a problem with me throwing inside, then they can meet me 60 feet, 6 inches away.
