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NY Post Front Page, 11/2/2015

Mets take 2-0 lead to 9th but fall to Royals in Extras to drop 2015 World Series

Year: 2015; World Series Game #1; Wednesday; Nov 1, NYM 2 Vs KCR 7; boxscore; WP: Luke Hochevar; LP: Addison Reed; Time: 4:15; Night; Attendance: 44,859; Record: 1-4; L; Royals win World Series 4-1;

Curtis Granderson RF: 1 for 4; HR; 2 runs; 1 RBI; 1 walk; 2 Ks; David Wright 3B: 1 for 5; 3 Ks; Daniel Murphy 2B: 0 for 3; 2 walks; 2 Ks; Yoenis Céspedes CF: 0 for 3; GDP; Juan Lagares CF: 0 for 2; Lucas Duda 1B: 0 for 2; SF; 1 RBI; 2 walks; 1 K; Travis d'Arnaud C: 0 for 5; GDP; 1 K; Michael Conforto LF: 2 for 5; 1 K; Wilmer Flores SS: 0 for 4; GDP,IW; 1 walk; 1 K; Matt Harvey P: 0 for 3; Kelly Johnson PH: 0 for 1; Matt Harvey: 8 innings; 2 runs; 2 ERs; 5 hits; 2 walks; 9 Ks; Jeurys Familia, BS (3): 2 innings; no runs; 2 Ks; Jon Niese: 1 inning; no runs; 1 hit; Addison Reed, L (0-1): 0.1 inning; 5 runs; 4 ERs; 3 hits; 1 walk; Bartolo Colón: 0.2 inning; no runs; 1 hit; 

Royals come back from 2-0 hole in the 9th to tie the game and send it to extras as the Mets lose in 12 innings and lose the 2015 World Series 4 Games to 1.

For the 3rd time in the series, the Mets took a lead into the late innings and ended up losing.  Curtis Granderson homered in the 1st, Lucas Duda added a Sac Fly in the 6th and Harvey was cruising.  Harvey K'd 9 in 8 shutout innings and lopied Terry Collins to complete the game.

Joel Sherman NY Post: The 9th-Inning decision that will haunt Terry Collins forever. "Collins was wavering, swayed by Harvey’s talent and intensity. That combination had delivered eight shutout innings, carried the Mets to within three outs of winning 2-0 and forcing the 111th World Series back to Kansas City. Collins said he does not let the crowd impact decisions, but clearly taking out Harvey at that point was going to unplug a great deal of the energy and momentum that was sweeping through a crowd of nearly 45,000 trying to arm-twist Collins with chants of 'Harvey, Harvey.'"

NY Post: Mets’ lead and year disappear in gut-wrenching World Series loss. "[Harvey] walked Cain to lead off the ninth and Cain stole second before Eric Hosmer smashed an RBI double to left. Jeurys Familia entered and retired Mike Moustakas, with the lead runner advancing to third. Salvador Perez then hit a grounder with the infield in and Hosmer snuck home on Wright’s throw to first base — Duda’s throw to the plate after Wright failed to look Hosmer all the way back to third beat Hosmer home but wasn’t in the same zip code — tying it 2-2."

NY Post: Why a Royals scouting report was start of the Mets’ demise. "'Make [Lucas] Duda throw the ball. Make [Travis] d’Arnaud throw the ball,' was presented to every Royals player."

NY Post: The ‘ballsy’ play that doomed hard-luck Familia again. "But his run of success ended in the World Series. In Game 1, he allowed a game-tying homer to Alex Gordon with one out in the ninth. Familia was on the mound, although not the loser, when the Royals rallied in the eighth inning Saturday in Game 4 to grab a 3-1 series lead aided by Daniel Murphy’s error. On Sunday, he suffered his second straight blown save, third of the series."

Familia threw a scoreless 10th, Jonathan Niese a scoreless 11th before the Royals broke through in the 112th, scoring 5 runs on 4 hits and a Daniel Murphy error - all charged to Addison Reed though 3 scored on a bases loaded double by Lorenzo Cain off Bartolo Colon.

Michael Conforto singled in the bottom of the 12th, his second hit of the night and just the 4th hit for the Mets the entire game but Wade Davis K'd the side and the 2015 season was over.  

ESPN.com: Royals catcher Salvador Perez named World Series MVP. "Perez hit .364/.391/.455 in the series, going 8-for-22 at the plate with two doubles while scoring three runs with two RBIs. In the Series-clinching win, Perez plated the tying run in the Royals' ninth-inning comeback, then sparked their victory in the 12th inning with a leadoff single down the right-field line before being lifted for pinch runner Jarrod Dyson."

2015 was one of the rare years that the Mets were in 1st or 2nd the entire year.  After not trading Wilmer Flores and getting Yoenis Cespedes as detailed in the SNY Documentary "Five Days in Flushing", the Mets swept a 3-game series against the Nationals and took over 1st for good.  They had an amazing series against the Dodgers with great pitching, amazing base running as they overcame a career ending injury to their SS Ruben Tejada. They swept a team in the NLCS that swept them in the post season, the Cubs.  They came to the World Series with power hitting and power pitching, but in the end the inability to field a ground ball and throw out a base runner did them in.

After the series Rico Petrocelli on the MLB Radio Network said "I hope the Mets young pitchers can stay healthy. Once again we Mets fans say..."What might have been."