Game One Recap

Bizarre

            That is the word to use to describe this game, a 14 inning loss to the Royals in Game 1 of the World Series. I mean things happened in this game that haven't happened in over 100 years. An inside the park home run? Is this the World Series or the CYO?

          Then there was the news that Royals starting pitcher Edinson Volquez father passed away, and everyone except for the poor guy knew. That just felt weird.

          Then in the most truly out of this world moment, Fox's coverage of the game went dead. Are you kidding me? One of the biggest sporting events of the year involving the biggest media market in the country and you allow that to happen? That is just plain old inexcusable. Though thanks to MLB connecting their international feed to us we got a break from Joe Buck. (I don't hate Buck as much as most people do, but he can grate on you, especially if your team is losing.)

           And then our lights out closer gives up a moonshot in the bottom of the ninth to send the game to extra innings. What a kick in the chops THAT was. Jeryus Familia has been our rock all season and in this post season in particular. Watching that ball fly out of Kauffman Stadium off the bat of Alex Gordon brought flashbacks of rotten bullpens of yesteryear .

           We scratched and clawed in this game. Juan Lagares had a couple of nice at bats. As did David Wright (his getting thrown out stealing in the 9th didn't help us any) Wilmer Flores drove in the go ahead run on an error by Royals first baseman Eric Hosner. Curtis Granderson went deep and made a hell of a defensive play in the 11th. and Daniel Murphy of course had a couple more hits.

            But they left a ton of guys on base, and was it just me, or did Matt Harvey seem to be uptight out there tonight? The inside the park home run seemed to rattle the usually unshakeable Dark Knight. He did have a stretch where he settled down and retired 11 in a row, or something like that, but something was off with him tonight. And maybe Familia was due for a stinker, but lets hope he got it out of the way.

             Kansas City is a tough place to play if your the visting team. The fans are ridiculously loud, and the demensions of the ballpark are weird. It's imperative that the Mets come out of these first two games with a split. I really feel the Royals have a big advantage in their park, and the Mets need to take that away from them. It's up to Jacob deGrom to even this thing up tomorrow (or later on today) For now, we all have to try to trudge through our day tired and miserable.  That was a $h-tty way to lose.

But it's one game.

One Bizarre Game.