It was a Halloween nightmare for Mets supporters as their team had been only five outs from equalizing the World Series. The 10th overall draft pick just past year, the outfielder went from Double-A to the Mets in late July. In his first 13 postseason games, he hit. “We’ve got to swing better”. But the Mets answered at the bottom of the inning with a homer from Michael Conforto for a 3-1 lead. That’s a 0.86 ERA. His team had a chance to tie or win the game down two runs with two runners on and one out. If Volquez can provide five or six solid innings keeping KC in the game, and handing it to their spectacular bullpen, he will have done his job. He retired the side in order in the eighth, but allowed two one-out singles in the ninth. Appropriately enough, the game ended with Kansas City taking advantage of another miscue when Cespedes was doubled off first base for the final out. When Greg Holland got hurt, Davis stepped in to the closer’s role seamlessly. Murphy charged the ball but let it go under his glove, allowing a run to score – instead of what would have been a two-out situation with runners on second and third.
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With the National Football League hosting yet another game at Wembley this weekend, it goes to show how far back baseball has slipped that we don’t have our own coverage even just for the marquee event of the year. He entered the game with one out and runners on first and second in the eighth and induced a weak grounder to second.
But Escobar was then ruled out on batter’s interference when Zobrist was fooled by a sinker for strike three, his swing carrying him in front of catcher Travis d’Arnaud, who was trying to throw to second base as Escobar was attempting a steal. Addison Reed comes in during the seventh inning, gives up no hits, no baserunners, and has a strikeout. This has been the story line for the past two months and why Bobby Parnell isn’t pitching.
Those who didn’t already know are finding out during this World Series: The Royals can hit.
Volquez said he played catch a little bit on Friday. Team captain David Wright noted that outside of Conforto’s homers, the Mets failed to mount much of an offensive attack against the Royals’ pitching. Six of those comebacks were from deficits of more than one run, matching the record set by the 1996 Yankees for the most in a single postseason.
Volquez said his family made the correct decision when they elected not to break the news before Tuesday’s start.
New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy looks back after committing an error on a ball hit by Kansas City Royals’ Eric Hosmer during the eighth inning in Game 4 of the baseball World Series on Saturday, October 31, 2015, in New York. It won’t be easy, as they’d face New York’s top three pitchers: Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, and Noah Syndergaard. If he doesn’t turn it around, the Mets will have a very hard time climbing out of their 3-1 series hole. Games 6 and 7 would be in Kansas City.
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But the Kansas City Royals, we knew – we know! – put the ball in play, and the Mets lack defensive range, especially in the middle infield, where Murphy is paired with shortstop Wilmer Flores. The local boy from Long Island held Kansas City in check on the mound until running into trouble in the sixth inning.
