Posted on 11/01/2015 9:35:26 PM PST by NRx
Royals 7 Mets 2 in 12 innings
Hershiser only won two games in the 1988 World Series because the series ended in five games. What made his performance so memorable was that it began during the last few weeks of the regular season, when he had 3 shutouts down the stretch and his 59 consecutive scoreless innings broke Don Drysdale’s record that had stood for 20 years.
No doubt. What I was answering was cicero2k's specific point that but for Baumgartner last year's Series would have been a laugher the other way. I don't think what Baumgartner did (dominating three games in a series) will soon be repeated and may be the most dominant performance in a Series in history. All such records are combinations of chance and talent.
Right. Can’t argue with that!
Hey Bobby...
You know... we here in Philly got to cheer for the fact that the Phils only lost 99 games, and NOT 100... good lord did they ever suck this season...
Sigh... Anyway, congrats to the Royals. Better team won.
RELENTLESS ! Never say die . . .It ain’t over, til . . .
TOOK The CROWN !!
I'm really glad those Royals don't play in our division...they're never beaten until the game is over. they just never stop!
Steve Doocy was born in Iowa but grew up in Kansas and was openly rooting for the Royals. This morning on “Fox & Friends” he said he wished that the Royals would have won it in 6 games at home tonight. Only problem with that is that Game Six would have been Tuesday night.
Spot on, Brother!
On the other hand his closer had already blown two saves in the series, and proceeded to blow his third. So it wasn't an easy decision to just pull Harvey.
Congrats to the Royals on a GREAT WS victory. Late inning lethal comebacks left the Astros/Blue Jays/Mets completely SHAMBOLLIXED. The Royals dealt their post-season opponents a series of devastating counter-strikes for which there was no answer. The Royals greatest talent is their ability gut-check, REPEATEDLY! Good on ya boys!
Which is why I was so happy to see Hosmer run and score. I don't care if he would have been out if Duda made a good throw. Duda didn't make a good throw and to be honest with the awful late innings defense the Mets played there was no reason to expect that he would.
Right. That’s one of those statistical injustices, in my mind. A closer enters the game with a 2-1 lead and a runner in second base with nobody out. The closer faces three hitters and gets three outs on weak grounders, but ends up blowing the save because the tying run scores on a poorly-executed fielder’s choice on the second out.
How about Mickey Lolich in the 1968 World Series? He pitched three complete games and on two-day's rest, out-dueled Bob Gibson to win game 7. Lolich only had one bad inning in the series which he attributes to standing around waiting on the national anthem performance - long delays due to sound system problems and then Jose Feliciano's tortured rendition (which served as the basis for Bleeding Gum Murphy's 45-minute Star Spangled Banner performance in The Simpson's). After giving up three runs in the first, Lolich shut them out the rest of the way.
I was frustrated with Joe Buck's over-the-top praise of Madison Baumgartner's performance when he mentioned that you had to go back to Christy Mathewson to find as impressive a performance. If he had listened to what his dad, Jack, had told him growing up, Joe would have remembered the Lolich performance. I'm sure that Mickey Lolich's performance pained Jack Buck to the day he died.
Odds are, Gordon would have been out by quite a margin. Had Gordon busted it out of the box, he might have had chance. That was odd because Alex Gordon plays really hard all the time but for whatever reason he didn't hit the throttle until he was halfway to first. He didn't take off like he thought he had hit a gapper.
The Royals scouting reports had that in them: make Duda throw and make d'Arnaud throw. Neither one can hit the side of a barn in the clutch. The Royals stole second at will, and when it came time for Duda to nail the runner at the plate the Royals already had a pretty good idea how it would turn out. Exciting play, clutch play, but not as risky a play as people make it out. Just good, solid Royals baseball.
Familia blew saves in game 1 and fame 4 as well, so I don't think it was all that much of an injustice.
It’s interesting that even with three blown saves, Familia had a 1.80 ERA in the World Series this year. That says an awful lot about just how badly the team played in the field against the Royals.
Still trying to take it all in. Most of the 30 years of waiting had been filled with so many years of disappointment and bad teams. Seeing the baseball team you rooted for as a kid, with such a good team built around George Brett, become a farm club for many of the big clubs had become downright depressing.
Royals management finally started getting things right the last few years and I am so humbly grateful for that. This team was truely a blessing and thanks again.
CGato
I’m glad because I generally root for the AL and that Comrades De Blasio and Cuomo have less to celebrate.
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