Looks like the 2015 World Series is off to a dynamic start.
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The worst offensive game may have belonged to Cespedes – 1 for 6 with a single that led to the Mets’ third run.
Volquez’s 63-year-old father Daniel died of heart disease before the game in their native Dominican Republic. “I don’t think most guys knew”.
“I talked to Chis Young and told him if Eddie finds out, you know how tough that can be”, Yost said.
But when he wore eye-black that brought awareness to breast cancer during the NFL’s breast cancer awareness month, the National Football League fined him for not meeting uniform guidelines.
The Royals said that when Volquez left the game, team officials and his family told him that his 63-year-old father had died. “He didn’t know. And I guess after the game is when he found out”.
“I don’t have any idea when he found out”, Yost said.
In a three-way tie, actually: Game 2 of the 1916 World Series between Boston and Brooklyn and Game 3 of the 2005 World Series between the White Sox and Astros also went 14 innings.
The 11-year pro appeared to warm up as if nothing was amiss on a misty evening in Kansas City, then marched stoically to the mound to start the game as the crowd roared.
Here is the home run by Gordon. The result was the 12 inside-the-park home run in World Series history and a 1-0 Royals lead.
The stadium was puzzled for a bit when the game suddenly stopped in the fourth.
The technical difficulty, which happened in the middle of the fourth inning and was attributed to generator failures, forced Fox to go back to the studio, where Dan O’Toole, Eric Karros, and Dontrelle Willis broke down the beginning of Game 1.
Fox quickly switched to Major League Baseball Network’s worldwide feed and announcers. That broadcast used a different generator.
Finally, at 9:44, Fox had its signal back – and the announcers had to return to their original seats.
But the power outage didn’t just affect folks watching at home.
The disruption was not as severe as the blackout two years ago at the Super Bowl in New Orleans, which plunged the Superdome into darkness and delayed the game for 34 minutes.
So we’ll see, but these Royals could be as tough a matchup for the Mets’ starters as has been widely predicted because they are such a good contact-hitting ballclub – and they had the highest average in the majors against fastballs 95 miles per hour and above. Can’t do that without TV.
New York Mets manager Terry Collins went on the field to alert umpires to the absence of replay in his team’s clubhouse; Joe Torre, MLB’s chief baseball officer, learned that both teams were without replay.
So how did social media react to all of this? With a steady stream of jokes and memes, of course.
Columnist Tara Sullivan in the Record notes the Mets have little margin for error. “What did I miss?” Google Fiber also issued an apology via Twitter, although it might have been unrelated to the issues behind Fox’s outage. Well, it wasn’t so cool Tuesday.
The Royals will be keen to build on their early lead when they meet the Mets in Kansas City on Wednesday.
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Alcides Escobar changed all that Tuesday night with this swing.
