GO ROYALS!!!
You are the 2015 World Series Baseball Champion.
GO ROYALS!!!
You are the 2015 World Series Baseball Champion.
Royals played smart crisp baseball throughout the series and deserved to win. They have a nice solid team that plays team baseball and they never give up. Not sure if they played great? Maybe very good imo. With that being said the Mets were 2 outs away from winning game one [huge]. A ground ball error under Murphy's legs in the 8th wins game 4 and and a horrible throw in the 9th by the first baseman with 2 outs to tie the score. Hopefully the Mets will comeback like the Royals did this year with that bitter taste driving them back to the WS. Congrats to the Royals fans here.This was a great Royals team and I enjoyed watching their style of play. The Mets starters did ok, but other than that, the Royals clearly beat them in every other phase of the game. The Royals were just great and played smartly throughout. I'll say it again, good pitching, good hitting, and good defense. They had it all.
Those were some really tough breaks for the Mets reliever - Familia. He did not pitch as badly as the record indicates, but those three blown saves have got to be devastating for him. And the manager opened himself up to a lot of second guessing.
The Mets and the Cubs appear to be the future of the NL for the next few years though, but they missed this opportunity.
KC is a phenomenal team! It would be interesting to bring back some of the other great teams from the past and see how they would play.
The Mets managed to bring out the best of KC, and the Mets gave it the best shot.
to the Royals. Must be nice to be a resident of Kansas City.
I agree the players did but I feel the manager let them down when he failed to bring in his closer in a timely manner in the last two games.
I agree the players did but I feel the manager let them down when he failed to bring in his closer in a timely manner in the last two games.
We don't know what would have happened but if you're willing to let your closer pitch six outs why let the set up man put two on? Then why not start the ninth with your closer when you are up by a very slim margin??
I'm glad to see the American League on top again!
I totally agree. Harvey was still pitching strong and wanted the ball in the 9th. Once he walked Cain then Collins should have given him the hook. Next batter hits the ball over the left fielders head who should have been playing deeper preventing a double. Managers mistake there not moving the rookie fielder. KC capitalized on every Mets mistake or error. Of course if Duda throws the ball to the catcher we are still watching baseball tonight. Mets need to work on their defense and fundamentals. Maybe watch some Royals highlights.I don't understand your reference to the set up man. Matt Harvey, the starting pitcher, was the one that started in the ninth. You know that hindsight is always 20/20 so it is easy to question the decision to let him stay in after the matter.
I do not think that it was a mistake to let Harvey start the 9th inning. He had pitched a great game and was still going strong with 2 strikeouts in the 8th. Remember that their closer Familia already had 2 blown saves. However I think they should have brought in Familia after Harvey walked the leadoff hitter. In any event we will never know what would have happened.
I don't understand your reference to the set up man. Matt Harvey, the starting pitcher, was the one that started in the ninth. You know that hindsight is always 20/20 so it is easy to question the decision to let him stay in after the matter.
I do not think that it was a mistake to let Harvey start the 9th inning. He had pitched a great game and was still going strong with 2 strikeouts in the 8th. Remember that their closer Familia already had 2 blown saves. However I think they should have brought in Familia after Harvey walked the leadoff hitter. In any event we will never know what would have happened.
In that game Harvey was the set up man, the man getting you to the closer. I said it that way because I heard one of the announcers use the term when speculating if Harvey would continue to set up the closer.
When you're on the brink of elimination and leading in the top of the ninth you put in the man who's job it is to close out the game no matter what Harvey wanted. He should have learned from the day before.
In 1997 my Indians were on the way to the Series crown, all the best closer in baseball that year had to do was get a couple of outs. Jose Mesa blew the save so you never know what's going to happen.