New York Mets @ Kansas City Royals
The World Series between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals was history in the making. Starting off the series in Kauffman Stadium, the Royals led off with shortstop Alcides Escobar. Alcides started the game with a stand up inside the park home run off starting pitcher Matt Harvey. Harvey was going into the game with a 2.98 era (earned run average) while Alcides Escobar averaged .389 while swinging at the first pitch and loved to hit fastballs as well as any other Royal, Matt Harvey liked to get into the count early with a high 90 MPH fastball. On that very first pitch, Escobar “ambushed” Harvey on that first pitch, driving into deep center field. Between center fielder Yoenis Cespedes and left fielder Michael Conforto, there was no communication in the outfield to whom was going to make the catch. Last minute try to catch the ball Cespedes tried to catch running backwards, avoiding the collision with Conforto, misses the catch, having the ball land on his ankle and roll the opposite direction, allowing Escobar to circle the bases. Especially with his speed, by the time Conforto got the ball and threw it in, Escobar was scoring the first run of the game. Escobar’s inside the park home run was the first since Mule Haas in 1929 for the Philadelphia A’s in game 4 of the World Series. Later in the game, the catcher Travis d’Arnaud hits an RBI off Kansas City pitcher Edininson Volquez. In the middle of the 4th inning while the Mets are taking the field and the Royals get up to bat, the Fox broadcast goes down. While the Fox broadcasting goes down, MLB TV takes over until Fox can fix their production truck due technical difficulties. Which isn’t a big deal, until they realize that they need that production truck to have video replays in case a team wants to challenge a call on the field. Since the production truck is offline and there is no video replay, after 10 or so minutes go by, both teams agree to continue the game without video replay. Later in the top of the 5th inning, Curtis Granderson pulls a shot into right fielder off a 1-2 pitch. Mets take a 2-1 lead. Then later in the game, the next inning in the top of the 6th, the Mets have runners at the corners, with one out, Michael Conforto hits a pop up into left field, deep enough to tag, allowing Cespedes to score and extend the lead to 3-1. Later in the inning, the bottom of the 6th, Eric Hosmer at the plate with runners at the corners. Pops it up into center field, allowing Ben Zobrist to score. Making the score 3-2 Mets. Eric Hosmer’s RBI broke a franchise postseason record for the most RBI’s with 24, passing George Brett. After Hosmer’s RBI, Moustakas drives a base hit into center field scoring Lorenzo Cain. After the inning, going into the top of the 7th inning, Fox broadcasting is back online fixing all technical difficulties they had. Which also brings back the video replay if necessary. In the top of the 8th inning, David Wright gets onto second base, with Wilmer Flores at the plate, he hits a sharp bouncing ball to Eric Hosmer at first, misplays the ball and completely gets by him, allowing Wright to score and give the Mets the lead. With all hope going towards the Mets going into the bottom of the 9th inning. The closer Jeurys Familia on the mound and left fielder Alex Gordon at the plate, with one out hits a bomb to deep center field and keeps the Royals alive and gets it to go to extra innings. This game will stretch all the way to the 14th inning. With bases loaded, speedy Escobar at 3rd, Hosmer at the plate and veteran Bartolo Colon on the mound. With no outs, Hosmer swings on the 2-2 pitch drives a deep pop up into right field, Granderson makes the catch but the throw will be too late at home, with Escobar tagging, no throw can beat him out. The Royals would win Game 1 of the World Series, win game 2, lose game 3, and then win game 4 and 5 to become the 2015 World Series champions, first time since 1985, 30 years later. World Series MVP went to the catcher Salvador Perez.
