Going into this World Series, many of the previews involved one key matchup: whether hard-throwing New York Mets pitchers could overwhelm the contact-minded Kansas City Royals hitters. Could the Mets’ starters approach the dominance they showed against the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS? The Royals are also a great defensive team with a penchant for […]
Going into this World Series, many of the previews involved one key matchup: whether hard-throwing New York Mets pitchers could overwhelm the contact-minded Kansas City Royals hitters. Could the Mets’ starters approach the dominance they showed against the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS? The Royals are also a great defensive team with a penchant for […]
I asked for weird baseball, and Game 1 of the World Series delivered. On Tuesday night, the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets played an epic marathon that ended in a Royals victory after 14 innings. That the game lasted so long was itself a rare occurrence in MLB history; this match was only […]
I asked for weird baseball, and Game 1 of the World Series delivered. On Tuesday night, the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets played an epic marathon that ended in a Royals victory after 14 innings. That the game lasted so long was itself a rare occurrence in MLB history; this match was only […]
Why should politics get to have all the fun with chats? In preparation for the World Series, which starts Tuesday, we summoned the biggest baseball obsessives on FiveThirtyEight’s staff to Slack to talk about the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals. As usual, the transcript below has been lightly edited. neil_paine (Neil Paine, senior […]
