Curtis Granderson went 2-for-5 with a home run and three runs scored in the Mets’ 9-3 win over the Royals in Game 3 of the World Series on Friday at Citi Field.
New York, trailing 3-2 in the third inning, retook the lead on Granderson’s two-run home run down the right-field line off Yordano Ventura.
“We started the inning getting Noah on, which definitely set the tone for us,” Granderson said. “I was trying to get a ball up in the zone that I could handle. (Ventura) did an amazing job of locating the ball down throughout the course of the game. He throws hard, but you try to get something in the zone that you can do something with. He supplied all the power, and it ended up getting out of the ballpark” (Oct. 31).
In the first inning, Granderson reached on an infield single into the shift in right field and scored on David Wright’s home run. Granderson made an impressive running catch on a ball Ben Zobrist hit to right-centerfield to end the fifth inning.
“I looked at (centerfielder Yoenis) Cespedes, and he wasn’t going to get there, so I just kept going,” Granderson said. “We ended up being close and I was able to reel it in to end the inning.”
“That was a great catch in right centerfield,” manager Terry Collins said. “But he’s just had a phenomenal year for us. He picks us up when we’ve needed to be picked up.”
In the sixth inning, he reached base on Franklin Morales’ mental error. With runners on the corners and one out, Granderson hit a comebacker to the mound, but Morales faked to the plate to prevent Wilmer Flores from scoring, then to third, and then to second, but everyone reached base, setting up for Wright’s two-run single.
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