Royals Beat Mets In 14 Innings in Game 1 of 2015 World Series, Relive the Wild Moments

2015 World Series
Eric Hosmer (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

For the first time since the mid-1980’s one team will go home as the World Series champions. The New York Mets are visiting the Kansas City Royals in game one of the 2015 World Series and its a matchup of young star power pitching against a versatile lineup full of great bats.

Before game one of the 2015 World Series even began, as the teams were getting announced to take the field, sobering news was reported about Kansas City Royals starting pitcher, Edison Volquez.

Throughout the night, the Fox telecast – which had some issues of their own – didn’t acknowledge the report.

But the show must go on, so World Series game 1 started, Volquez looked good to start and then the ‘Dark Knight’, Matt Harvey, took the mound for the Mets against Alcides Escobar and the first pitch didn’t quite go well.

For the second time in the history of the World Series, first time since 1903, there was a first-pitch inside the park homerun and the Royals started off hot.

Fast forward to the top of the fourth inning and things started to get real weird.

First, the Mets got two runners on and the young catcher, Travis d’Arnaud, took the plate and he accidentally came up big for the Mets.

Tied at 1, the game went to the bottom of the fourth inning and then. The game went away. For no reason. The feed cutoff and all people saw on their TV was a strange message.

Game 1 of the World Series was delayed and no one knew what was going on.

It appears that google fiber was the main culprit for the delays.

And because of the delay, the replay system went down and it halted the game right in its tracks.

After about 10 minutes, the replay came back but the game was still with another telecast courtesy of the MLB international feed. We lost Joe Buck and Harold Reynolds but gained Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz.

With Vasgersian and Smoltz still on the call, and the game feed back, Curtis Granderson came out in the top of the fifth inning and smacked a homerun to right field off Edison Volquez.

As the game went on, the Mets had sacrifices to get their score up to three, then the Royals responded with a sacrifice of their own and a single from Mike Moustakas to tie the game up at three runs a piece heading into the eighth inning. Oh, and Joe Buck and Harold Reynolds came back and abruptly took the game over from Vasgersian and Smoltz.

Top of the eighth and the Mets had Juan Lagares on base with Wilmer Flores at the plate. The man who was almost not even a part of this roster three months ago hit one to two-time gold glove winning first baseman Eric Hosmer and he couldn’t handle it. Lagares came around to score and the Mets went ahead 4-3 late in the game.

Moving on to the bottom of the 8th, Tyler Clippard got into a jam which required Mets shutdown closer Jeurys Familia to come in a little early and attempt a four out save, something he’s done twice already this postseason.

Familia got out of the eighth, moved onto the ninth inning and he faced Alex Gordon with the bases empty and one out.

With that big blast from Gordon, the game would go into extra innings, the first time game 1 of the World Series went into extra innings since the Mets faced off with their crosstown rival New York Yankees in 2000.

The game went on, and on, and on and eventually it got to the fourteenth inning. Yes, the fourteenth inning. Officially the longest game one in the history of the World Series and tied with a 2005 World Series game between the Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox for the longest World Series game of all-time. In the pitching matchup everyone expected, the Mets had Barolo Colon on the mound and the Royals went with Chris Young, former member of the New York Mets.

Both teams had a chance but it wasn’t until the bottom of the 14th inning when Colon allowed the bases to get loaded with no out and Eric Hosmer, the man who once almost blew the lead for the Royals, hit the game-winning sacrifice fly and sealed the deal

All in total, game 1 of the 2015 World Series went 14 innings, lasted 5 hours and 9 minutes, there were 36 players and 13 pitchers used in total and those hurlers tossed a combined 417 pitches and it was just all-in-all the wildest game ever.

ESPN stats and info puts a bow on the wild game and the insane stats.

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