KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- This is the best thing about baseball. You can’t always give the ball to Steph Curry or LeBron James with the game on the line. There are 25 guys on the roster and you never know when the 18th guy or 21st guy or 25th guy might decide a game, even a World Series game.
It started in the rain with a crazy inside-the-park home run on the first pitch of the bottom of the first inning and unfolded like a World Series artful documentary: Tense, dramatic, second-guesses, heroes, clutch home runs, old guys, guys off the scrap heap, bunts, errors, balls deflecting off bases and walls behind home plate, and even a television blackout that had everyone wondering who pulled the plug.