Alcides Escobar's drive leading off the game hit off center fielder Yoenis Cespedes' leg and kept rolling and rolling and rolling. Escobar hit the first inside-the-park home run leading off a World Series game since 1903, an adrenaline-charged beginning for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Mets. Throwing the first World Series pitch of his career, New York's Matt Harvey opened with a 95 mph, belt-high fastball over the outer part of the plate.
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