kansas city royals played los angeles dodgers in the world series.
kansas city royals played los angeles dodgers in the world series.
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bullet::::- november 1 – the kansas city royals captured the second world series title in franchise history, with a 12-inning, 7–2 victory over the new york mets in game 5 at citi field. once again, kansas city came from behind to overcome a dominant start by matt harvey, who carried a 2–0 shutout through eight innings, then convinced mets manager terry collins to let him remain in the game. as a result, the royals rallied for a pair of runs in the ninth to tie it at 2–2 before the five-run explosion in the decisive 12th. salvador pérez, who hit .364 (8-for-22) in the series, earned most valuable player honors. pérez also was involved in the tying run and started the five-run rally to put the game away. edinson vólquez returned from his father's funeral in the dominican republic in time to start the game for the royals. when vólquez was preparing to start game 1 of the series, his father daniel died at age 63 and had been battling heart disease. even though, vólquez allowed just three runs on six hits in six innings of kansas city's 5–4 victory in the opener. this time vólquez gave up a leadoff home run to curtis granderson on his third pitch of the night. but he settled down and retired the next three batters, then faced the minimum nine batters over the next three frames thanks to a pair of double plays, holding the mets’ lead at 1–0 while harvey dominated the royals inning after inning. vólquez kept his composure as the game moved to the sixth, when the mets used a granderson walk, a david wright single and an error to load the bases with nobody out. but vólquez limited the damage to one run, striking out yoenis céspedes and allowing a sacrifice fly rbi to lucas duda before retiring travis d'arnaud on a third base ground ball, keeping the royals well within striking distance. harvey took the mound for the ninth with his pitch count at 102 and the mets leading 2–0. up to that point, harvey's line was four hits with nine strikeouts and one walk. harvey proceeded to walk leadoff batter lorenzo cain, who subsequently stole second base and scored on an rbi double by eric hosmer. mets manager collins then summoned jeurys familia to close out the game, but with hosmer at third base and one out, pérez hit a soft ground ball to third, with the infield in, and wright looked hosmer back to third and threw to first for the out. but hosmer bounced around third the whole play, waited for wright to make the throw and he bolted for home. duda took the throw for the second out but his relay to the plate was wide right, pulling d'arnaud away from the play and allowing hosmer to score the tying run. with both teams tied at 2–2, the game went into extras innings, and the royals took control in the top of the 12th scoring five runs. pérez started with a leadoff single off losing pitcher addison reed, while pinch-runner jarrod dyson stole second and moved to third on a grounder. christian colón then stepped in as a pinch-hitter for reliever luke hochevar. it was his first plate appearance since october 4, but he was able to hit a hard single to left field that brought home the tiebreaking run. after that, paulo orlando grounded into fielder's choice to second baseman daniel murphy, and was safe at second on a two bases error by murphy. alcides escobar followed with a double that scored colón and advanced orlando to third. with kansas city up 4–2, ben zobrist was intentionally walked and bartolo colón replaced reed. cain then hit a bases loaded double against colón to push the score to 7–2. hochevar was credited with the win and wade davis retired the last three outs of the series. the kansas city royals are the first team since the 1989 oakland athletics to win the world series a season after losing the world series the previous year. they also are the first american league team since the 1961 new york yankees to win a world series a year after losing game 7 of the world series.
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historically, kansans have supported the major league sports teams of kansas city, missouri, including the kansas city royals (mlb), and the kansas city chiefs (nfl), in part because the home stadiums for these teams are a few miles from the kansas border. the chiefs and the royals play at the truman sports complex, located about from the kansas–missouri state line. fc kansas city, a charter member of the national women's soccer league, played the 2013 season, the first for both the team and the league, on the kansas side of the metropolitan area, but played on the missouri side until folding after the 2017 season. from 1973 to 1997 the flagship radio station for the royals was wibw in topeka.
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