Volume 128 Issue 38
Thursday, October 30; 2014
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KANSAS CITY BLUES
Kansas City Royals' Alex Gordon walks off the field after Game 7 of baseball's World Series Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo. The Giants won 3-2 to win the series.
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Royals lose to Giants in Game 7 of World Series
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The San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals to clinch the 2014 World Series, their third in five years.
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The Giants were the first team to win a Game 7 as a road team since the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1979.
San Francisco starter Tim Hudson answered with a shutout inning, himself. Hudson's 1 2/3 innings was the shortest outing by a starting pitcher since 1960.
The night began with a one-two-three inning for Royals' starter Jeremy Guthrie, capped off with a diving play by third basemen Mike Moustakas to get the final out.
In the second inning, the Giants loaded the bases on Guthrie and designated hitter Michael Morse hit a sacrifice fly to drive in third baseman Pablo Sandoval. Shortstop Brandon Crawford then hit another sacrifice fly to score rightfielder Hunter Pence to make it 2-0 Giants.
Kansas City answered in the bottom of the second with two runs of its own to tie the game. Leffieldier Alex Gordon drove in designated hitter Billy Butler from second. Second basemen Omar Infante returned the favored to Gordon, hitting a sacrifice fly to drive him in.
San Francisco's Hudson was replaced by former Royal and reliever Jeremy Affeldt in the second inning.
The Giants' Morse again delivered in the fourth inning for San Francisco, singling to right and driving in Sandoval from third to give the Giants a one-run lead.
Guthrie was replaced following Morse's RBI.
with the Royals bringing in reliever Kelvin Herera.
in the fifth inning, normal Giants star er Madison Bumgarner entered as a reliever. Bumgarner picked up wins in both Games 1 and 5.
Following 2 and 2/3 innings pitched by Herrera, Kansas City reliever Wade Davis replaced Herrera in the sixth.
Bumgarner pitched five scoreless innings to pick up his third win of the 2014 World Series. He was named World Series MVP.
Edited by Emily Brown
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