The Kansas City Royals won Game One of baseball’s World Series with a 5-4, 14th-inning victory over the New York Mets. The epic clash took over five hours, with over 400 pitches delivered by the 13 pitchers used by the two teams. Game Two takes places again in Kansas City later today.
The game was brought to the extra innings by Alex Gordon of the Royals, who tied the game 4-4 with a bottom-of-the-ninth home run. The home team Royals, having taken an early lead with the first ball of their first inning, twice came from behind as the Mets enjoyed 3-1 and 4-3 leads.
Eleven of the last 12 game one winners have gone on to take the series.
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A power outage twice interrupted Fox’s broadcast of game one between the Royals and Mets. The outage happened in the middle of the fourth inning, and Fox said it was caused by their broadcast truck in Kansas City losing power. A screen appeared saying “we are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by.” And stand by fans did.
The network was apologetic: Google Fiber was suitably chastened, too: Viewers missed Kendrys Morales striking out. When the broadcast resumed, MLB official Joe Torre was seen on the field speaking with umpires and managers of the Mets and Royals. After a short delay, Fox brought in the MLB Network’s feed which had been used as the international feed.
