Kansas City Royals set up World Series meeting with New York Mets

“But they really held us in check a few of these games, and that makes a huge difference”.

The Royals will host the New York Mets in game one of the World Series on Tuesday. Like a year ago, I fully expect the World Series to go seven games.

Toronto threatened in the ninth. The word from New York was that there was not “clear and convincing” evidence that the call on the field should be overturned and the home run stood to give Kansas City a 2-0 lead.

The game was delayed by rain with Kansas City coming to bat in the bottom half of the eighth.

It’s the second rain delay Kansas City has endured this postseason, and the first didn’t turn out well. They let, you know, Jose Bautista hit his home runs, but they won anyway.

For the Royals, will it be the Ventura who tossed seven innings of three-hit ball in the must-win Game 6 of last year’s World Series?

Jose Bautista’s to home runs were not enough as the Blue Jays season ended in KC Friday.

After the delay, Cain calmly worked a leadoff walk from Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna, and Hosmer followed with a clean single that Bautista fielded down the right-field line.

Former Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., who was sacked September 10, will become the Red Sox’ first base coach, according to a major league source, replacing Arnie Beyeler, whose contract was not renewed. After the game, he was asked directly whether he planned to return to Toronto. Bautista cut the Blue Jays’ deficit to 2-1 with a solo shot, but Alex Rios restored the Royals’ two-run cushion with an RBI single in the seventh. But left fielder Ben Revere raced back and made a sensational leaping catch, smashing his face against the fence, to keep Toronto within a run.

Zobrist’s second home run of the series gave Kansas City the lead and sent a capacity crowd of 40,494 into a towel-waving frenzy.

Yes they could have, but the Blue Jays still can be proud of how far they got given where they were in late July – and how long ago that previous October 23 game was.

After not pitching for over an hour, Davis returned for the ninth inning. A review found there was no interference. The Royals were not big on slugging, but they could still score runs when they had to. Will the Blue Jays re-sign potential free agents, such as Price and Marco Estrada?

“These last couple of months, they flew by and we played such good baseball, better than you normally see for a stretch”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.

The Royals wasted no time taking the lead off David Price, the Toronto ace who has been so good during the regular season but remains winless in eight career postseason starts.

That could all change by the final pitch.

BRYANT:…After being up, and then Bautista hits the homerun and we’re tied, and it looks like, OK, well, maybe there’s going to be a game 7.

The Kansas City Royals are headed to their second straight World Series. Cain slid into the plate easily ahead of Tulowitzki’s throw for the game-winning run. “We pitchers can do it all”, he said.

Back then, the Royals were devoid of talent, going nowhere and doing it slowly.

There is no bereavement list during the playoffs, which means Toronto had to play with 24 players in splitting those games with Kansas City.

Price delivered a solid performance and kept the Blue Jays in the game at Kauffman Stadium.

The Royals had seemed in control after collecting an insurance run in the seventh inning and with its much-vaunted bullpen up and running.

When Hosmer hits the ball down into the right field corner, Bautista goes to his left, fields the ball, spins and throws – to the wrong base.

“That’s 99 percent (of the time) a fastball right there in the strike zone, ” he said.

Kansas City shortstop Alcides Escobar was unanimously selected the ALCS MVP. “We were sitting in that position, we just couldn’t get it done. But God knows what would happened if I would have done that anyways”.

But they could not dethrone the Royals, who ultimately won with timely hitting from a deep, diverse offence and a better bullpen.

Yost conceded that Ventura has been merely “OK” this postseason.