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One year after ending his remarkable 20-year baseball career, former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is taking another big step, as he and girlfriend Hannah Davis are reportedly engaged.

If Tuesday night's debut of the 2015 World Series is any indication, we're in for a championship bout between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets that should go down to the wire entering Wednesday night's Game 2.

Nine innings weren't enough to decide Game 1, a 14-inning affair that went long into the Kansas City night—or, morning. What ended as one of the longest World Series games ever by any measurement resulted in a Royals victory, 5-4.

The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Mets in a 14-inning World Series Game 1 thriller Tuesday, but neither team will have much of an opportunity to reflect on what happened, as they'll be right back at it in Wednesday's Game 2.

This thing started off with a historic bang. 

In the 15-year span from 1990-2004, Barry Bonds won the National League's Most Valuable Player award seven times. He finished in the top five in MVP voting in five of the other eight years.

Whatever you want to say about how he did it or what became of his legacy, the fact is he was absolutely dominating on the field.

There is no shortage of star power in this year's MLB free-agent class.

Two pitchers riding diverging postseason paths will collide in Game 2 of 2015's World Series on Wednesday night.

The New York Mets have emerged victorious in all three of Jacob deGrom's playoff starts, all away from Citi Field. He'll look to once again disappoint a home crowd to bring the series to Flushing tied at 1-1.

This should be David Wright’s stage. 

This should be where the man once tagged as Captain America and the captain of the New York Mets, the only franchise for which he’s ever played, shined brightest. In David Wright’s first World Series, he should be the superstar of superstars. 

Whether it's the New York Mets or the Kansas City Royals, the winner of the World Series will have its first championship in three decades.

Strictly going off the first act, we can deduce two things: It may take another three decades for this series to crown a winner, and getting there is going to be a hell of a ride.

Stephen Kiprotich won the gold medal in the men's marathon at the 2012 London Olympics with a time of two hours, eight minutes and one second. He could have ran the 26.2 miles twice at that pace and still had plenty of time to watch the end of Game 1 of the 2015 World Series.