The Kansas City Royals ended the Mets' season Sunday night with a 7-2 win in 12 innings in Game 5 of the World Series at Citi Field.
Trailing 2-0 going into the top of the ninth, Kansas City scored two runs to tie the game. They then proceeded to score five more in the top of the 12th to put the game, and the series, away for good.
Kansas City's Christian Colon hit a one-out single off of Addison Reed that scored pinch-runner Jarrod Dyson from third base and gave the Royals a 3-2 lead in the 12th. After a Daniel Murphy error on a ground ball by Paulo Orlando put runners at first and second, Alcides Escobar hit a double down the line that scored Colon to make it 4-2. After an intentional walk to Ben Zobrist loaded the bases, the Royals' Lorenzo Cain unloaded them with a three-run double off the Mets' Bartolo Colon to make it 7-2.
Matt Harvey pitched eight scoreless innings and was rewarded with the chance to start the ninth with a two-run lead. But he ran into trouble immediately, walking Cain to start the inning. The next batter, Eric Hosmer, laced a double to left that scored Cain and made it 2-1.
Harvey was lifted at that point for closer Jeurys Familia. The next batter, Mike Moustakas, grounded out to first, moving Hosmer to third. Salvador Perez followed by hitting a ground ball to third. When Mets third baseman David Wright started to throw to first, Hosmer broke from third from the plate. Duda caught Wright's throw to retire Perez for the second out, but his throw to the plate got past catcher Travis d'Arnaud, allowing Hosmer to score the tying run.
Harvey ended up getting charged with both runs that scored in the top of the ninth. In his eight-plus innings of work, he allowed five hits, walked two and struck out nine.
The Mets took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on Curtis Granderson's home run. They loaded the bases with no one out in the bottom of the sixth against Royals starter Edinson Volquez, but only pushed one run across the plate, on a sacrifice fly by Duda. The inning ended with the Mets winning 2-0. It was a lead that held up until the top of the ninth.
Volquez allowed two runs - only one earned - on just two hits over his six innings of work, but he did walk five. He also struck out five.
The Royals' Kelvin Herrera, Luke Hochevar and Wade Davis combined to pitch five shutout innings in relief. Hochevar got the win, and Davis pitched a scoreless bottom of the 12th to seal the game.
The Royals were in the World Series for the second straight season. They lost the 2014 World Series to the San Francisco Giants in seven games.
This year was the Mets' first appearance in the World Series since 2000. They also lost in five games that year, to the Yankees.