NEW YORK (AP) — David Wright and Curtis Granderson homered, rookie Noah Syndergaard pitched six effective innings and the New York Mets roughed up the Kansas City Royals 9-3 Friday night, cutting their World Series deficit to 2-1.
Shut down in Kansas City, the Mets came out swinging in the first Series game at Citi Field. Wright launched a two-run homer in the first inning and finished with four RBIs as New York broke loose for 12 hits.
Syndergaard set a serious tone with the first pitch, firing a 97 mph fastball to the backstop that sent Alcides Escobar to the dirt and got the crowd buzzing.
Syndergaard struggled early, but the Mets took the lead after a back-and-forth start, chased Yordano Ventura and pulled away.
The Mets will try to even things in Game 4 on Halloween night, when hometown rookie Steven Matz starts against Chris Young, who won the opener in relief.
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Thor set the tone for this game with the first pitch. Up and in. Knock him on his butt. Ready to roll. His six innings were about as good as your could ask out of him, victimized by some funky fielding and bloop hits. But getting Alex Rios out with the bases loaded? A true gut-check moment for him and for the Mets. Definitely the biggest tipping point in the game, and Syndergaard came up big. I like that Terry Collins stuck with the young pitcher in the tough spot — and had it pay off.
Wright and Granderson powered the Mets to a strong offensive game, something the Mets sorely lacked in Games 1 and 2. Also, welcome back Juan Uribe! Dude hasn’t faced major league pitching in over a month? No bother… here’s an RBI single in the World Series.
Pretty much everyone contributed to the Mets offensive outburt in some way, outside of Sports Illustrated cover star Daniel Murphy. He had to cool off eventually, right?
The bullpen came in after Syndergaard and kept the Royals off the board, setting the team up to get revenge on Saturday night and try to even up the series. See you for Game 4, with Steven Matz on the mound…
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