World Series Game 3 live stream: How to watch Royals vs. Mets 2015 online
Kansas City leads the best-of-seven series, two games to none.
The Kansas City Royals look to stay red hot against the New York Mets in Game 3 of the World Series as the Fall Classic shifts to New York on Friday night. The Royals hold a 2-0 series lead, but just three weeks ago Kansas City was facing a different fate.
Down two games to one to the upstart Houston Astros in the ALDS, the Royals trailed 6-2 heading into the eighth inning of Game 4, six outs from the 2014 American League pennant winners heading home with an early playoff exit. But they rallied for five runs in the eighth inning and two more in the ninth to win Game 4, then eliminated Houston in Game 5.
The Royals then beat the Toronto Blue Jays in six games in the ALCS, and have won the first two games of the World Series. That's eight wins in 10 games for the Royals, outscoring their opponents 66-39 during that span.
“We had a tough series against Houston and had our backs against the wall in Game 4. Looked like we were going home, and all of a sudden there’s that focus and that intensity and that excitement of a playoff game,” Royals manager Ned Yost told reporters on Thursday. “Boom, we win and then win Game 5, and a tough Toronto series. They’ve been focused and determined throughout the whole World Series.”
The Mets were no strangers to a hot streak themselves. After all, they did sweep the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS, not trailing once in the four games. They entered the World Series on a five-game winning streak, only to run into a buzz saw in the first two games in Kansas City.
The 14-inning loss in Game 1 was particularly crushing for New York, as they held a one-run lead in the ninth inning with closer Jeurys Familia on the mound. But after pitching scoreless baseball in the first two round, Familia surrendered the game-tying home run to Alex Gordon on Tuesday.
The Mets have hit one home run in the first two games of the World Series - by Curtis Granderson in Game 1 - after out-homering their opponents 14-6 in the first two rounds of the postseason. Daniel Murphy was a huge reason for that New York power surge, with seven home runs in nine games in the NLDS and NLCS combined, but so far in the World Series the Royals have held Murphy relatively in check, going 2-for-9 (.222) with two singles and a pair of walks.
The World Series shifts to New York for Game 3, with FOX game coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET. Joe Buck will call the game alongside analysts Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci, with reporters Erin Andrews and Ken Rosenthal as well.
The game will be available online via the FOX Sports Go app, with authentication required via a television provider.
Royals at Mets, World Series Game 3
Location: Citi Field, New York
Time: 8:07 p.m. ET first pitch
TV: FOX
Streaming: Fox Sports Go mobile app; Postseason.tv
Radio: ESPN Radio
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