It was a Halloween nightmare for the New York Mets as they watched a late one-run lead in Game Four of the World Series slip away under second baseman Daniel Murphy’s glove.
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Volquez allowed three runs over six innings in a no-decision in the opener, and Royals manager Ned Yost did not hesitate to select him for Game 5.
For the Royals, it was just another day at the office – it was the third game this World Series that they had overcome a deficit after the eighth inning or later. “We are proud of you, and be proud, and make people more proud than they are'”.
In one of the wildest five-game World Series of all-time, Kansas City trailed the Mets in 4 of the 5 games and yet came back to win all except one of them. After a 5-3 Royals win in Game Four on Saturday night, Kansas City holds a 3-1 series lead and can clinch the World Series with a win. After right fielder Alex Rios flied out, Young was pinch-hit for by Kendrys Morales, who usually serves as Kansas City’s designated hitter.
Game stats: Royals – five runs, nine hits, and zero errors.
Familia tried to put the loss in perspective after the game.
Volquez had been the victor in Game 1, departing for his home in the Dominican Republic immediately afterwards. David Wright struck out to start the inning, but Murphy and Yoenis Cespedes hit back-to-back singles to put the tying runs on base with Lucas Duda coming to the plate.
Mike Moustakas followed with a go-ahead single and, with the fans sitting in stunned silence, Salvador Perez singled for an insurance run. He worked 178.1 innings in 2013 and there were concerns that, as the 2015 season wore on and the Mets advanced deeper into the playoffs, that if he added too many more innings to that total it might hurt him in the future. “For me, I just try to be focused, try to get another groundball, try to forget”. He entered the game with one out and runners on first and second in the eighth and induced a weak grounder to second.
NEW YORK – The Kansas City Royals keep finding new ways to win this October.
And the game-tying run on Sunday was borne of battling through every at bat, putting the ball in play, and running like hell, which was pretty much the Royals’ whole thing all season.
Harvey then walked Lorenzo Cain, Cain stole second, and Eric Hosmer drove Cain home with a double to deep left. His father died before Volquez started Game 1 on Tuesday, and his family requested that Volquez not be told before he pitched; this weekend, he returned to his team after attending the funeral.
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Another Royals comeback, and now we have a storyline on deck that could be written and talked about for as long as we play the game of baseball. Gordon then delivered a single to right that scored Perez. Conforto became the first rookie to connect twice in the World Series since Atlanta’s Andruw Jones did it at Yankee Stadium in 1996.
