Billy Butler squeezed a single past the Giants' Brandon Crawford (notable because Butler doesn't squeeze past much of anything these days) to drive in the Royals' first run of Game 2 and tie the ball game. The hit was notable for more than just weight-jokes though:
Billy Butler ties Game 2 on rare Royals hit with RISP
The Royals ran themselves into an out, and hit themselves into a tie game.
Rob Carr
Butler's RBI single was the first hit for the Royals with a RISP since ALCS Game 2. They'd been 0-for-their-last-15.
— SI MLB (@si_mlb) October 23, 2014 It's more than astonishing that a team that hadn't lost until Game 1 of the World Series had failed to garner a hit with a runner in scoring position for three games, but there you have it. Wondering how the Royals won those games? Here's how they scored their runs starting in Game 3 of the ALCS:
- Game 3: RBI groundout, sac fly
- Game 4: RBI groundout, 2nd run scores on an error
- World Series Game 1: Sal Perez solo homer
Baseball is weird and wonderful.
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