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Colon is now the oldest pitcher to lose a game in the World Series.
Let’s just hope he becomes the oldest player to hit a World Series-winning, pinch hit, walk-off home run.
Game over! Royals win 5-4!
Hosmer hit a sac-fly to right. Granderson threw home, but Escobar didn’t even need to slide.
Game 1 ends after 5 hours and 9 minutes, or the exact time of your usual 9-inning Yankees-Red Sox game.
First and third, no outs after a single by Zobrist. Colon is now intentionally walking Cain. Bases will be loaded for Hosmer.
We’re a triple play away from 15 innings.
Escobar gets on to open the bottom of the 14th on an error by David Wright. Zobrist is up now. The Royals probably hope he’s not out of doubles.
Royals approach at the plate is to keep batting until Colon retires.
— Matthew Friedrichs (@CopyEditComment) October 28, 2015
Top of the 14th over: Royals 4-4 Mets
Chris Young makes quick work of the Mets again.
Let’s see how quickly the Royals can get out and move us onto the 15th to tie the World Series record for longest game.
End of the 13th: Royals 4-4 Mets
Orlando grounds out.
And I just opened a generic brand can of Red Bull (Red Thunder!) at 1:02 a.m. while alone in my basement. This is living.
Two outs now. Moustakas at second. Orlando at the plate.
And here’s my column from earlier this season arguing that Bartolo Colon is the greatest athlete in baseball.
Moustakas opens the 13th inning with a single.
It’s his second hit of the night. Normally, that’s good, but it’s the 13th inning. He’s, like, 2-for-17 now probably.
Top of the 13th over: Royals 4-4 Mets
Chris Young throws his second scoreless inning. Yet everyone who watched this entire game is now very old.
FOX’s Verducci just said that Cespedes was New York’s fourth target for a deadline bat acquisition. Their first target was Jay Bruce. Even if the Mets win the World Series, maybe their GM should still be fired.
This is now the longest Game 1 in World Series history.
And I live-blogged it.
Hooray for me.
Missed opportunity.
Hey Dyson: pic.twitter.com/fTGeVbqykU
— Kevin McElroy (@knickerbacker) October 28, 2015
End of the 12th: Royals 4-4 Mets
Down goes Dyson.
Cain grounds out. Second and third now with two outs. Colon is now intentionally walking Hosmer to bring up Dyson.
The game is about to end. Or continue. I think it’s 50/50.
Escobar moved Orlando second on a force and Colon intentionally walked Doubles Zobrist. Cain is up with 1 out and men on first and second.
Paulo Orlando leads off with an infield single. Not a good start for Colon.
BARTOLO COLON IS NOW IN THE GAME. This is the true start of the World Series.
Top of the 12th over: Royals 4-4 Mets
Chris Young strikes out the side. The Mets were overpowered by his eephus-like pitches.
Chris Young strikes out Cespedes for the second out. Two of baseball’s flashiest stars going head to head.
Chris Young is in for the Royals. Daniel Murphy at the plate. And the NBA season is now half over.
End of the 11th: Royals 4-4 Mets
Niese throws another strong inning. We are going 12. We are getting ever closer to Bartolo Colon.
Dirt and pine tar is considered suspicious in baseball now?
A suspicious substance was spotted on Salvador Perez's shin guard. https://t.co/BMUgXbtkzl pic.twitter.com/Su5pEGkqb1
— Sporting News (@sportingnews) October 28, 2015
Dyson rips the first pitch on a line to right field, but Granderson ran it down. That very easily could have been a walk-off inside-the-park home run, which I guess isn’t really possible on account of all the running required.
Top of the 11th over: Royals 4-4 Mets
After a long battle, Madson gets David Wright to strike out. Dyson, Moustakas and Perez are due up for the Royals. That’s not the heart of the order, so this game could keep going. Time for some late night coffee.
Madson walks Granderson and now it’s a man on first and second with David Wright coming up. No matter what happens, I promise I won’t use that terrible David Wrong line again.
With Lagares on second, Madson gets the second out by striking out Michael Cuddyer, or whatever remains of Michael Cuddyer’s corpse.
Ryan Madson is in to pitch the 11th for the Royals. He’s given up a bunch of homers lately, so Lagares leads off with a bunt single. Rude.
He just wants to get some sleep tonight.
This dude had the under https://t.co/rqTInhpkLv
— Chris Hassel (@hasselESPN) October 28, 2015
End of the 10th: Royals 4-4 Mets
Niese dominated the Royals and quickly recorded three outs. Apparently Niese and Davis are baseball’s greatest pitchers.
Jonathon Niese is in to pitch the bottom of the 10th for the Mets.
Niese was born on the day the Mets won the World Series in 1986. Kind of a jerk move to be born that day and try to upstage the Mets, in my opinion.
Top of the 10th over: Royals 4-4 Mets
KC reliever Wade Davis just made the Mets look foolish. Imagine most of Mets history captured in three at-bats. Like that.
I'm gonna invent "glove mics" where we can hear the horrible shit players scream into their mitts after giving up tying runs
— Zach Selwyn (@ZachSelwyn) October 28, 2015
If any of you out there are the praying sort, please ...
I get the feeling this game may come down to ... pic.twitter.com/VPvUSPVEBG
— David Schoenfield (@dschoenfield) October 28, 2015
Gordon is the first player to hit a game-tying homer in the 9th inning of a World Series game since Scott Brosius in 2001. That’s a long time ago. The Yankees were legitimate contenders back then.
Glass half empty: We may have to stay up all night.
Glass half full: A World Series game may be decided by position players pitching.
End of the 9th: Royals 4-4 Mets
Familia didn’t close the game. In fact, he opened it.
TIE GAME! Gordon homers to dead center
Eric Hosmer is very happy.
Familia opens the 9th against Perez and gets him to ground out to short. One out.
Top of the 9th over: Mets 4-3
David Murphy flies out to end the inning. His home run streak is probably over. He did go 2-for-4 today with a run scored, so he’s not a total failure.
David Wright singled to left and then stole second. But the safe call may be overturned on video replay ... assuming the FOX video doesn’t crash during the replay review.
And there’s the ruling ... he’s out.
Luke Hochevar is pitching the 9th for the Royals.
Joe Buck just said that the Hosmer error is the first time in the World Series since Buckner in ‘86 that a team has taken the lead on an error in a World Series game in the 8th inning or later. Congratulations, Eric!
End of the 8th: Mets 4-3 Royals
Familia gets Moustakas to ground out to short and the inning is over. Kansas City has one more inning to do something, or they fall down 1-0 in the Series. No one has ever come back from that.
I’m being told that fact is not true.
Clippard walks Kendry Morales following a wild pitch put Zobrist to third. Runners at the corners, two outs. Clippard is now being replaced by Mets closer Jeurys Familia. The Jeurys still out on this move.
I’m really very sorry.
Here’s to bunting!
Never change Yost! pic.twitter.com/UmyWkGTZxl
— Batting Stance Guy (@BattingStanceG) October 28, 2015
Clippard strikes out Cain for the first out. Cain tried to bunt at one point in the at-bat. Yes, with no outs and a guy at second. Being stupid is one of baseball’s unwritten rules.
Zobrist opens the bottom of the 8th with his second double of the night, this one off Tyler Clippard.
It seems that Zobrist would hit a man with glasses.
Error de Hosmer en 1B.... anota Lagares!
— Enrique Rojas/ESPN (@Enrique_Rojas1) October 28, 2015
Now we all know how to say “error” in Spanish. I try to teach during my liveblogs.
Top of the 8th over: Mets 4-3 Royals
Michael Cuddyer K’s to end the innings. But the Mets take the lead on the error by the two-time Gold Glove winner Hosmer.
It was foolish of him to play tonight with one of those Gold Gloves. His regular leather one is much better at fielding grounders.
Mets take the lead!
Lagares stole second, putting Wilmer Flores up with two outs. He slapped one to first, but Eric Hosmer let it bounce by for an error ... and a Mets lead.
Herrera just threw a 91 mph change up to Juan Lagares. Pathetic. I can throw one MUCH slower than that. (And then Lagares, clearly unimpressed, singles to center. Man on first, two outs.
Updated
Kelvin Herrera opens the 8th inning with a strikeout of Duda.
Meanwhile, the FOX broadcast reports that Volquez’s father died today and that the pitcher’s wife didn’t want him to know before the game. So there you go.
Updated
Let’s check in with the President of the United States to see how much he enjoyed the National Pastime this evening:
Good to be home for a night. Even better to see the @chicagobulls start the season off right! #SeeRed
— President Obama (@POTUS) October 28, 2015
Dammit, Barack! Come on!
End of the 7th: Royals 3-3 Mets
Addison Reed goes one, two, three through the Royals order. He entered this game with a 6.27 career ERA against the Royals in 19 appearances. People would have killed Terry Collins for the move if KC had scored.
Addison Reed is in to pitch for the Mets in the bottom of the 7th. Matt Harvey exits after just 80 pitches. In Scott Boras’ mind, this game is a win.
Top of the 7th over: Royals 3-3 Mets
Cespedes flies out to left to end the inning. It’s time for the 7th inning stretch.
This had to be done. #Bartolo #hotlinebling #Mets #MLB (Vine by @squidthoughts) https://t.co/JkgEnmLDI2
— #QueenofQueens (@AHotMetss) October 26, 2015
Murphy singles (start swinging for the fences again, guy!) and now Cespedes is up. First and second, two out.
Herrera walks David Wright and ... up steps Babe Daniel Murphy Ruth!
Cuddyer is the Mets' appendix. It served a function a long time ago, but now you have to pay someone to remove it from your roster.
— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) October 28, 2015
Danny Duffy opened the Top of the 7th on the mound, retired the two batters he faced and is now being replaced by Kelvin Herrera.
This is standard bullpen use by Ned Yost. But in a tie game in the late innings, it’s hard not to think about this game going deep into extras, both teams running out of pitchers, and position players having to pitch. It’s how all baseball championships should be decided.
End of the 6th: Royals 3-3 Mets
We now have a three inning game. Or a X-inning game.
TIE GAME!
Moustakas singles to right field to score Cain from second. Maybe the Mets should have taken Scott Boras’ advice to sit Harvey down.
Cain just stole second base, meaning American viewers can now get a free Taco Bell breakfast taco.
Congratulations, America?
Royals trim the lead to 3-2.
Hosmer plates Zobrist with a sac fly to center. One out now with Cain still on first.
Did I mention Bartolo Colon is warming up?
Bartolo Colon is warming up in the Mets bullpen. This game is about to reach all new levels of awesome.
First and third now, no outs, after Lorenzo Cain singles opposite field. Tying runs are on for Hosmer. The crowd is getting loud, as crowds are prone to do in such situations.
Zobrist opens the bottom of the 6th first pitch-swinging and laces a double down the first base line.
I think the Royals may have decided to take my advice that they consider doing damage against Harvey!
Top of the 6th over: Mets 3-1 Royals
Moustakas prevents a fourth Mets run with a great play on the third base line to rob Flores of a hit. KC now needs to start doing damage against Harvey, who is only at 65 pitches.
Mets 3-1 Royals
Michael Conforto plates Cespedes from third with a one-out, sac-fly to left. Cespedes beat Gordon’s throw home quite easily. Only Cespedes could have thrown Cespedes out there.
There’s no replay for the rest of the game due to the FOX TV issues. And, yes, this was happening ...
The Fox commenters mocking replay, a technology that's 15 years old and used better by every other major sport, is so very baseball.
— Bandit (@banditref) October 28, 2015
Duda singles through 17 infielders on the right side and now there are runners on first and third with no outs.
Cespedes leads off the 6th inning with a single up the middle. Duda is up and the Royals are in a major shift again.
Does Lucas Duda know how to bunt? Have to think that's a pretty solid play here pic.twitter.com/sSG2jLaTkV
— Larry Brown (@LBSports) October 28, 2015
Hey, I wonder what former baseball star Jose Canseco is up to these days.
You will see some of the lowest most boring scoring games in world series history
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) October 28, 2015
Okay, great! Thanks, Jose!
End of the 5th: Mets 2-1 Royals
Royals go down one, two, three. Flores ranged into the hole to field an Escobar grounder and got him with a great throw. Only four innings left, Royals. Don’t panic. BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
Matt Harvey opens the bottom of the 5th with a four-pitch K of Gordon. He seems to have really settle in, which is bad for the Royals since they’re, you know, losing now.
Top of the 5th over: Mets 2-1 Royals
And now another commercial break. Seriously, game, please come back. We like you and we want to see you grow to a full life of 9 innings.
Mets 2-1 Royals. Home run by Curtis Granderson.
The Mets now have their first lead thanks to a homer that snuck over the wall in right.
Maybe FOX can power their broadcast on Granderson’s bat.
And it’s back!
And there goes the feed again.
End of the 4th: Mets 1-1 Royals
Perez lines out to Wright at third and the Royals go down in order.
The game is now going to commercial break. I hope it comes back this time. Don’t you die on us, game!
Moustakas lines out to Granderson for the second out of the bottom of the 4th. I don’t normally update every out, but I just want to make sure you all know that they decided to play baseball again.
And we’re back! Harvey is now 0-2 on Moustakas. Keep playing, players. We’ll stop you if Instagram goes down.
The FOX feed is back ... but apparently they stopped the game until the broadcast feed came back. This is the tail murdering the dog.
The FOX feed has lost power. So they’re just talking in the studio in Los Angeles now.
Which means that this liveblog has also lost power.
Please stand by, I guess?
Top of the 4th over: Mets 1-1 Royals
Volquez gets Flores to ground into a force out to short to end the inning. Flores is not crying, because making an out in the World Series is better than living in Milwaukee.
Fox Sports is aware of the news about the death of Edinson Volquez’s father but do not plan to report it on broadcast while he is in game.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 28, 2015
I mean, you ... uh ... just reported it.
Mets 1-1 Royals
Travis d’Arnaud ripped a ground ball down the third base line. Moustakas knocked it down, but didn’t have a chance to make a play. We’ve got a new ball game.
(It’s actually still the same ball game. Hope I didn’t confuse anyone!)
Things are happening! Lucas Duda knocks one through the infield to push Murphy to third. First and third, one out.
I had no idea that Bret Bielema was a Mets fan. @RazorbackersFS @House_Razor pic.twitter.com/N7BbCp0NIG
— Bandit (@banditref) October 28, 2015
He’s not the hero New York wants, but he’s the hero New York deserves.
Daniel Murphy leads off the 4th inning with a single. Yeah, only a single. He’s slumping.
OMG! Cancel the World Series. Major news breaking!!!!!!
Derek Jeter's days as a player are over — both as a @Yankees and a single man. https://t.co/Ioq8oj1zaN pic.twitter.com/kJvJDAfUwr
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) October 28, 2015
End of the 3rd: Royals 1-0 Mets
KC goes one, two, three in the bottom of the third, with Eric Hosmer grounding out for the final out. He dove headfirst into first base.
Baseball players, diving into first base gets your there slower. There have been, like, studies on this and everything. Stop doing it.
Hey, if you want an Australian viewpoint of this baseball game, you can head over here for that.
I think they’re getting better numbers than this live blog. Crikey!
(Did I pronounce that correctly?)
Volquez has a no-hitter through three innings.
No, that’s not a jinx. He’s probably not following this liveblog. (Although if you are, Edinson, great work out there so far! Keep it up!)
Top of the 3rd over: Royals 1-0 Mets
Volquez gets Wright looking on a 2-2 pitch to end the inning. More like David Wrong, am I wright?
Ugh. Who wrote that?
Volquez walked Granderson and we have two men on with two outs. David Wright could become more beloved among Mets fans if he gets a big hit here.
Mets No. 9 hitter Kelly Johnson just got hit with a pitch to give New York their first baserunner. They should probably try to get more baserunners in less painful ways.
Royals record to two quick outs to open the 3rd. Hosmer scoops a hard hit grounder for Out 1 and Gordon makes a sliding grab in left for the second.
Back to the Volquez thing ... there are also reports that he is aware that his father died today. So it looks like there’s one thing we know for sure: it sucks that Volquez’s dad died today.
End of the 2nd: Royals 1-0 Mets
Escobar ends the inning with a 5-3 grounder to third.
At least he didn’t have to run as far this at-bat. Those inside-the-park home runs are probably pretty tiring.
First and second now after Harvey walks Gordon, but Rios swings on the first pitch he sees and flies out. It’s Escobar time!
If volquez doesn't know about his father this is the flores thing X a million
— Kyle Koster (@KyleKoster) October 28, 2015
Fans aren’t supposed to know this kind of thing before players. This all feels pretty gross.
Salvador Perez is on board with one out with a nice opposite field single off of a Harvey cutter. Alex Gordon and Alex Rios are due next and then the Inside The Park Hero.
Top of the 2nd over: Royals 1-0 Mets
Volquez quickly cruises through three batters again.
You could say he’s motivated to pitch in memory of his father, but ... yeah.
How do you not beat someone with a baseball bat who comes up to you and says: “Hey, nice effort on the mound tonight. So anyway ... we didn’t want to tell you before, but your dad died today.”
Updated
Whaaaaaaaaat? I’m sorry, this is a little messed up. It’s just a baseball game.
The Royals are saying that Edinson Volquez does not know about his father's reported death.
— Barry Svrluga (@barrysvrluga) October 28, 2015
End of the 1st: Royals 1-0 Mets
Harvey walked Hosmer with two outs and then went 3-0 on Kendry Morales before getting him to ground out to first. Not the cleanest inning for Harvey. Although, he probably should have been out of it unscathed. His outfielders didn’t help him much on Escobar’s Little League home run.
Updated
After failing to get to Escobar’s ball, Yoenis Cespedes tracks down a fly ball hit ... right to him by Lorenzo Cain for the second out.
Royals 1-0 Mets
On the first pitch -- FIRST PITCH -- Alcides Escobar ripped one to center that the Mets couldn’t track down and the Royals open the scoring with an inside-the-park home run. What a start.
Royals-Mets, and somewhere Carlos Beltran looks on like a proud dad.
— Mitch Goldich (@mitchgoldich) October 28, 2015
Maybe you in a few years, Yankees!
Top of the 1st over: Royals 0-0 Mets
Volquez goes one, two, three, including striking out Daniel Murphy for the third out. Yes, THE Daniel Murphy.
Is it too early for the Royals to pop the Champagne?
First out recorded
Curtis Granderson flies out weekly to left on Volquez’s second pitch. We’re underway!
I mean, I kind of get what the FOX play-by-play guy was going for here, but when your job is explaining things to people?
Joe Buck: "They're the two best teams that are left. It doesn't always work out that way, but it did this season."
— SportsPickle (@sportspickle) October 28, 2015
The Royals struck out less than any team in baseball this year for the fourth consecutive season. This year they K’d “just” 973 times.
In 1985, when they last won the World Series? They struck out only 840 times.
Baseball has changed a bit in 30 years.
Andy Grammer just sang the U.S. national anthem to open the World Series. Baseball: the world’s game.
Can’t imagine what it must be like to have this happen on top of the pressure of pitching in this game.
Source close to the Volquez family confirms to @Enrique_Rojas1 and @ESPNDeportes that Edinson Volquez's father died today in the DR
— Marly Rivera ~ ESPN (@MarlyRiveraESPN) October 27, 2015
An important reminder for international readers (and also many American readers): the Royals don’t play in Kansas.
We’re not in Kansas anymore! #ComeTogether pic.twitter.com/OgME3q25Pp
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) October 19, 2015
@DJGalloEtc made it to NY the two NLDC and one NLCS games and now staying up late all week! #LGM #BritishMetsFans pic.twitter.com/n2X3zD865f
— Laura Wright (@laurafwright) October 27, 2015
Awesome! Come on, Mets! She didn’t do this just for the frequent flier miles.
Matt Harvey is pitching on 10 days rest tonight.
He’s had lengthy breaks twice before this season, 12 days, and gave up 0 runs and struck out 15 batters in 11 innings in those starts.
So, yeah, he’s pretty good on long rest. Don’t be surprised if Scott Boras demands his clients gets 10 days off between every start for the rest of his career.
Royals Game 1 starter Edinson Volquez is 1-4 with a 6.56 ERA in five career postseason starts.
And that’s without ever having to face Daniel Murphy, baseball’s greatest slugger of all-time!
This World Series features two teams that haven’t won the World Series since the mid-80s - the Royals in 1985 and the Mets in 1986.
There should be a special pregame ceremony to honor Don Denkinger and Bill Buckner.
Welcome to the liveblog of Game 1 of the World Series!
It’s been raining all day in Kansas City, but the game is scheduled to start on time. Obviously just some pre-Series jitters from Mother Nature.
DJ will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s David Lengel on how the teams break down:
