World Series Game Analysis
The Mets are down 2-0 and they need to win their next game because only once ever that a team came back from a 3-0 lead. Everyone is saying the need to win this game. They did so now it was 2-1 and getting closer. The Mets were very eager to win this next game. They didn't they lost. It was 3-1 now and heading into the 5th game. They lost that game so the royals won the World Series. This is how it happened. The Mets held leads in the middle innings in both of their World Series losses. In Game 1, they were up 3–1 in the middle of the sixth inning; in Game 2, they were up 1–0 in the middle of the fifth. In the bottom of those innings, however, the Royals scored two and four runs, respectively. The Mets could never win in the late innings. They could never hang on. There bullpen couldn't get the job done after Matt Harvey and
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Much has been made of the advantage New York might derive from the fact that the Royals hitters have not faced its young starters before. That advantage appears to be gone the third time through the order, at which point every Kansas City hitter has seen the pitcher in question twice. That phenomenon is not unique to this World Series. Consider the league-wide splits for each time a hitter faces an opposing starter in a game.
Its obvious to say the Mets needed to score more runs to win, but the problem has been too widespread for fine-tuned solutions. Granderson, Daniel Murphy and Duda have each reached base four times, but the rest of the team has contributed a total of one walk and six singles. Wright, Yoenis Cespedes, d'Arnaud, Michael Conforto and Wilmer Flores, the Nos. 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8 hitters in the lineup, are a combined 4-for-42 with one base on balls. That I think is the reason they lost.
1. Desperate: When you need something or want something.
2. Coincidentally: Something that you do the
Much has been made of the advantage New York might derive from the fact that the Royals hitters have not faced its young starters before. That advantage appears to be gone the third time through the order, at which point every Kansas City hitter has seen the pitcher in question twice. That phenomenon is not unique to this World Series. Consider the league-wide splits for each time a hitter faces an opposing starter in a game.
Its obvious to say the Mets needed to score more runs to win, but the problem has been too widespread for fine-tuned solutions. Granderson, Daniel Murphy and Duda have each reached base four times, but the rest of the team has contributed a total of one walk and six singles. Wright, Yoenis Cespedes, d'Arnaud, Michael Conforto and Wilmer Flores, the Nos. 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8 hitters in the lineup, are a combined 4-for-42 with one base on balls. That I think is the reason they lost.
1. Desperate: When you need something or want something.
2. Coincidentally: Something that you do the