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The lead is now commanding, and the Kansas City Royals now have their season-long goal within reach.

After Johnny Cueto once again reverted to ace form and led the Royals to a 7-1 Game 2 win over the New York Mets on Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium, the Royals lead the best-of-seven World Series 2-0 as it heads back to Citi Field in New York on Friday. But despite the Mets getting the next three games in their yard, the Royals control the most important series of the year.

Normally, the Arizona Fall League is chock full of some of baseball's best prospects, both on the mound and in the field.

While the six teams that comprise the offseason league are littered with familiar names, many of the very best prospects in the game are not taking part in this year's AFL, especially on the pitching side of things.

The New York Mets are officially in trouble.

It was the Johnny Cueto show in Game 2 of the World Series Wednesday, and the pitcher threw a complete game and allowed a single run and two hits on the way to the 7-1 victory. The Kansas City Royals now lead the Mets 2-0 in the Fall Classic and are two victories away from their first championship since 1985. 

The list of starting pitchers set to hit free agency this winter reads like the notes in the margin of a Cy Young Award ballot.

One arm, though, could turn the market on its head—and he's currently signed through 2016.

The New York Mets were the team that entered the World Series with their championship hopes pinned to their dominant starting pitchers. Alas, it was Johnny Cueto who controlled the Kansas City Royals’ 7-1 victory in Wednesday’s Game 2 of the Fall Classic with a complete-game effort to give his team a commanding 2-0 lead.

Your true colors are showing, A-Rod.

New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez slipped up during the live broadcast from Kauffman Stadium following Game 2 of the World Series, saying Yankees instead of Mets.

The panel's reaction may have been the best part—most notably Pete Rose's facial expression.

If the New York Mets are going to win the 2015 World Series, they'll need to claw their way out of the 2-0 hole they've dug themselves against the Kansas City Royals.

Yeah, it sounds bad. But some of you may remember it's nothing the Mets haven't done before, as they had to fight back from a 2-0 deficit the last time they won the World Series back in 1986.

The Kansas City Royals didn't trade for Johnny Cueto to beat the Boston Red Sox in August or the Baltimore Orioles in September.

Good thing, too, because Cueto gave up 15 runs in those two games.

Doesn't matter now, does it?

The Kansas City Royals used a brilliant complete-game outing from Johnny Cueto and a four-run blitz in the fifth inning to defeat the New York Mets, 7-1, in Game 2 of the World Series to take a 2-0 lead as things gets set to shift east. 

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals are talent-laden teams with seemingly unending budgets, each looking to get over the hump and contend for a World Series, and both showed an interest in Bud Black as a potential manager.