NEW YORK (AP) — The Kansas City Royals rallied for three runs in the eighth inning after second baseman Daniel Murphy‘s error and startled the New York Mets 5-3 Saturday night for a 3-1 lead in the World Series.
The Royals posted their seventh postseason comeback win this October. Now, one more victory in November will clinch their first crown since 1985.
Edinson Volquez, who pitched Game 1 for Kansas City only hours after his father died, has returned from the funeral and will start Game 5 Sunday night. Matt Harvey starts for the Mets.
Mets rookie Michael Conforto hit two home runs, and a sellout crowd kept getting louder and louder on Halloween night. But the fans at Citi Field gasped, then went silent after Murphy’s misplay.
Murphy let Eric Hosmer‘s grounder go under his glove with one out, allowing the tying run to score. Mike Moustakas and Salvador Perez followed with RBI singles.
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Game-changing error. Game-ending screwup. A roller coaster of emotions and a huge tease in the ninth inning, only to have the Mets and their fans leave the stadium very, very disappointed.
It’s a game of inches, they say. An inch under Murphy’s glove. An inch out of Murphy’s diving stab. Inches away from victory.
The Mets had two games in their grasps, but left the door open a crack and the Royals came busting through both times. Whereas Game 1 was a hard-fought, exciting and well-played baseball game, Game 4 was far from that. Ugly baseball on all sides of the ball, for both Kansas City and New York.
Matz gave the Mets enough to win. As did Jon Niese, Bartolo Colon and Addison Reed. Tyler Clippard, on the other hand, did not. He has no control and people will be second-guessing pitching him in the eighth inning for the next 24 hours. Jeurys Familia had too big of a mess to clean up, and couldn’t get out of the inning before the Royals took the lead and, eventually, the game.
The Mets now have their backs against the wall for the next, hopefully, three games. They have their big three on the mound in Harvey, Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard. But, it’s the bats that are in question. They busted out for nine runs in Game 3, but fell quiet again in Game 4. Will they show up for Games 5, 6 or 7?
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