October 27, 2015: Game 1 of the World Series is played at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. The Kansas City Royals played in the World Series just last year. The Mets? Not since October 26, 2000, 15 years earlier.
Matt Harvey started for the Mets. The 1st pitch thrown by "The Dark Knight" was hit by Alcides Escobar for an inside-the-park home run, the 1st in Series play since Mule Haas of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics, 86 years earlier. Curtis Granderson hit a home run off Royals starter Edinson Vólquez, giving the Mets a 3-1 lead. But the Royals tied it in the bottom of the 6th, taking Vólquez off the hook. Only then was he told that his father died earlier in the day.
The Mets took a 4-3 lead in the top of the 8th, and were just 2 outs away from taking Game 1, when Jeurys Familia blew a save opportunity for the 1st time since July 30, by giving up a home run to Alex Gordon. He became the 5th player, the 1st since Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius of the 2001 Yankees, to hit a game-tying 9th inning home run in World Series play.
The game went into extra innings, and Granderson made a sensational catch of a Jarrod Dyson drive in the 11th. But in the bottom of the 14th, David Wright, the Mets' 3rd baseman and Captain -- and, to hear Met fans tell it, "the face of New York baseball" now that Derek Jeter had retired -- made a throwing error that lets Escobar reach 1st. Ben Zobrist singled him over to 3rd, and Eric Hosmer flew out to center, a sacrifice fly that brought home the winning run. Royals 5, Mets 4.
This was the 1st time in World Series history that the same player scored both the 1st run of the game on the 1st pitch, and the last run of the game on the last pitch. The game tied the record for the longest game by innings in World Series history, shared with Game 2 in 1916 and Game 3 in 2005. The loss made 42-year-old Bartolo Colón the oldest player ever to lose a World Series game.
It was also the 7th time in the Mets' 25 World Series games to that point in which they had a lead and blew it. That ratio would get worse.
Matt Harvey started for the Mets. The 1st pitch thrown by "The Dark Knight" was hit by Alcides Escobar for an inside-the-park home run, the 1st in Series play since Mule Haas of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics, 86 years earlier. Curtis Granderson hit a home run off Royals starter Edinson Vólquez, giving the Mets a 3-1 lead. But the Royals tied it in the bottom of the 6th, taking Vólquez off the hook. Only then was he told that his father died earlier in the day.
The Mets took a 4-3 lead in the top of the 8th, and were just 2 outs away from taking Game 1, when Jeurys Familia blew a save opportunity for the 1st time since July 30, by giving up a home run to Alex Gordon. He became the 5th player, the 1st since Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius of the 2001 Yankees, to hit a game-tying 9th inning home run in World Series play.
The game went into extra innings, and Granderson made a sensational catch of a Jarrod Dyson drive in the 11th. But in the bottom of the 14th, David Wright, the Mets' 3rd baseman and Captain -- and, to hear Met fans tell it, "the face of New York baseball" now that Derek Jeter had retired -- made a throwing error that lets Escobar reach 1st. Ben Zobrist singled him over to 3rd, and Eric Hosmer flew out to center, a sacrifice fly that brought home the winning run. Royals 5, Mets 4.
This was the 1st time in World Series history that the same player scored both the 1st run of the game on the 1st pitch, and the last run of the game on the last pitch. The game tied the record for the longest game by innings in World Series history, shared with Game 2 in 1916 and Game 3 in 2005. The loss made 42-year-old Bartolo Colón the oldest player ever to lose a World Series game.
It was also the 7th time in the Mets' 25 World Series games to that point in which they had a lead and blew it. That ratio would get worse.
It was the Mets' 5th World Series. They are 0-5 in Game 1, 2-3 in Game 2, 4-1 in Game 3, 3-2 in Game 4, 2-3 in Game 5, 1-1 in Game 6, and 1-1 in Game 7. So, a typical World Series for the Mets would be: Fall behind 2-0, tie up the Series, lose Game 5, and then, because they've split both Game 6s and Game 7s, it's anybody's guess.
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October 27, 2015 was a Tuesday. Football was in midweek. There were 3 games played in the NBA:
* The Detroit Pistons beat the Atlanta Hawks, 106-94 at the Philips Arena (now the State Farm Arena) in Atlanta.
* The Chicago Bulls beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 97-95 at the United Center in Chicago.
* And the Golden State Warriors beat the New Orleans Pelicans, 111-95 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena (then named the Oracle Arena). Steph Curry scored 40 points.
There were 10 games in the NHL:
* The New Jersey Devils lost to the Columbus Blew Jackets, 3-1 at the Prudential Center.
* The Boston Bruins beat the Arizona Coyotes, 6-0 at the TD Garden in Boston.
* The Buffalo Sabres beat the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3 at the Wells Fargo Center (now the Xfinity Mobile Arena) in Philadelphia. Zemgus Girgensons scored the winning goal, with 2:31 left in overtime.
* The Florida Panthers beat the Colorado Avalanche, 4-1 at the BB&T Center (now the Amerant Bank Arena) in the Miami suburb of Sunrise, Florida.
* The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Detroit Red Wings, 3-1 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
* The Minnesota Wild beat the Edmonton Oilers, 4-3 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
* The St. Louis Blues beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-0 at the Scottrade Center (now the Enterprise Center) in St. Louis.
* The Los Angeles Kings beat the Winnipeg Jets, 4-1 at Bell MTS Place (now the Canada Life Centre) in Winnipeg.
* The Dallas Stars beat the Anaheim Ducks, 4-3 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
* And the Vancouver Canucks beat the Montreal Canadiens, 5-1 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
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