Game Thread World Series Game 5 Royals vs. Mets Sunday 11/1/15

Your last comment is ridiculous rides, but my guess is you are some Mets hater?

Blowing off the Mets as an average team after also saying they led in the 9th inning in two of their L's...and the 3rd L they led in the 8th inning BTW...is ridiculous.

The Mets are a very good team who made some big mistakes in the field late in the games. The Royals deserve full credit for that, and took advantage of the Mets issues late, and proved they were the better team.

But to dismiss the Mets as whatever, which is exactly the tone of your post, is ridiculous.

But to each their own.

 

I thought the Mets would WIN this WS.
What I mean by looked like an average team was exactly how I explained it - costly late inn errors, bad defense, game ending baserunning blunder, inability to throw out a single base stealer ( in 7 att).
You can also add a blown save if you like.
All the earmarks of an "average" team. And I said average, not bad.

You would be hard pressed to find other WS teams which played such shoddy baseball in those game situations. And I don't buy the excuse of the Royals putting relentless pressure on them - this is the WS, it comes with the territory.
I'm talking about basic routine plays which weren't executed by the Mets and if I were a Mets' fan I would choose other more colorful words to describe the way they played.

The series lasted only five games for a reason.

 

The series lasted 5 games because the Royals executed when it mattered most and the Mets didn't. The Royals proved they were the better team. But I do not think the Mets can be dismissed as clearly being outclassed or the Royals proved they were the much better team. I just don't see how that can be said when the Mets led in the 9th inning in 2 of their L's and led in the 8th inning in their other L.

That doesn't compute to me, but again to each their own.

I will say the Mets clearly have issues in the field, and struggled there most of the season so that is nothing new...although it was taken to a new level in the WS. Now if you want to say the moment was too big for the Mets late in the game...sure you can make that case, but again I don't see how the math works to say leading in the 9th in 2 L's and leading in the 8th in the other L proves they were outclassed and the Royals were the much better team. That doesn't make sense to me.

 

I will say one other thing. Even though the games were close this was not a close series. When you lose in 5 games you cannot consider that a close series. So at the end of the day the Royals won decisively in the series, but I do not think the Mets were outclassed. I do think the Mets need to look to improve their D up the middle though, that was clear this series.

 

The Mets literally gave two games away with there lousy defense.

 

...^^^this,,,...game 1 set the tone for the rest of the series...Familia giving up the bomb to Gordon in the 9th?...who saw that comin?

...if Mets had won game 1 it would likely have affected the psyche of BOTH teams going forward.