So for you baseball fans who don't have your heads stuck in the sand, the World Series has started. The Royals are winning 3-1, and it's the Royals' Edison Volquez againts the Mets' Matt Harvey. The aces previously met in game one, which the Royals won in fourteen innings. So now the big question; who's going to win tonight? If the Royals win, then they win the series. If the Mets win, then the series goes back to Kansas City for game 6.
The Royals will win. I'm calling it. The Mets pitchers, particularly Noah Syndergaard, Jacob de Grom, and tonight starter, Matt Harvey, are all primarily fastball pitchers. The Royals have proved all series that they can hit a fastball, with the way they're set up. The Royals are contact hitters, even Eric Hosmer, their cleanup hitter, is more of an RBI guy than a home run guy. They put the ball in play, and if last night's fiasco (Daniel Murphy error) has taught us anything, it's that if you put the ball in play, things will happen. This is why the Mets were able to breeze through the Cubs and the Dodgers. The Cubs primarily rely on their pitching, home runs, and doubles. Their unpredictable, once they get men on base. And the Dodgers need to wait for a home run. I love the Dodgers, but they're kind of messed up right now.
Remember a couple of posts ago when I said the Blue Jays would win the World Series. Well, I didn't factor in the Mets. The Mets' pitching would be perfect for the Blue Jays, who are even worse about waiting for the dinger than the Dodgers.
I can't see into the future, but I can guess that the Royals will win tonight. They are the best team in the American League, but nobody payed them any attention because they were so far ahead of the Central from the beginning. But they will win tonight.
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