World Series

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. 

Kansas City Royals right-hander Edinson Volquez will start Game 5 of the 2015 World Series, per USA Today columnist Bob Nightengale.

Volquez pitched six innings Tuesday in Game 1 of the World Series against the New York Mets, allowing six hits and three earned runs while earning a no-decision in the Royals' 5-4 victory in 14 innings. 

Winning baseball starts on the mound, and that's an understatement as far as the 2015 World Series goes with two stud pitchers lining up for Game 2 in Kauffman Stadium.

The Kansas City Royals took a 2-0 lead over the New York Mets with a 7-1 victory Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium. 

After a Lucas Duda single gave the Mets the lead in the fourth inning, Kansas City's contact-driven lineup broke through against Jacob deGrom in the fifth inning. The Royals scored four runs behind singles from Alcides Escobar, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas. 

This 2015 World Series is going to be fun.

The opening night of it provided an obvious showcase of that, as Tuesday night's Game 1 went well into the morning in one of the longest games in World Series history. After five hours and nine minutes, over 14 innings, the Royals emerged on top to take the 1-0 series lead.

On a night when the start of the NBA season—and a Steph Curry heat check—threatened to take the spotlight, the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals stole the show in Game 1 of the World Series.

No New York Mets player will be more active during the 2015 World Series than Travis d'Arnaud. 

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.