![]() ![]() The Royals run to the 2014 World Series was a surprise. Gordon would not have scored without more miscues. *I was positioned along the left-field line as I watched the play unfold. The play was analyzed and recreated so many times that it wouldn’t have been surprising to see a re-enactment with poodles and labradors presented as scientific proof on a 10 p.m. newscast. If you got tired of hearing if that dress was blue and black or white and gold, the debate* if Gordon could have scored on the play would have made you sick. Perez, who was up after Gordon, popped out to third to end the game. As Crawford caught the ball, Jirschele had the stop sign up for Gordon as he was rounding third. He scrambled to it and fired a strike to shortstop Brandon Crawford, who was in short left field. But as Perez went to pick the ball up at the base of the wall, he booted it towards the left field foul pole as Gordon was rounding second base. Gordon took the first pitch, a 97 MPH fastball, for a ball.Īfter Blanco misplayed Gordon’s hit, left fielder Juan Perez backed him up. Gordon was due up second in the inning after catcher Sal Perez. The New York Mets had just inserted closer Jeurys Familia, he of the 96 MPH fastball and 93 MPH split-finger fastball. The Royals trailed 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth in Game 1 of the 2015 World Series. Ninety feet from possibly the greatest Game 7 moment in World Series history. (Alex Gordon came through his a huge home run in Game 1 of the 2015 World Series) ![]()
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