World Series Game 1 Thread: Mets vs Royals, 8:07 PM - Tonight's The Knight!

The New York Mets are playing in their first Fall Classic in 15 years when they take on the Kansas City Royals tonight at Kauffman Stadium.

Manager Terry Collins has selected right-hander Matt Harvey (2-0, 2.84) to pitch in Game 1 and he will oppose Royals right-hander Edinson Volquez in a 8:07 PM matchup.

The forecast is for rain potentially delaying the scheduled start time, but the game will not be in any danger of getting postponed.

Harvey is pumped and ready to go. “For me, the season was obviously an extreme success, just being healthy, playing, going out there every fifth day or whenever it was and being healthy and being where we are now. I don’t think anybody’s happier at that than I am.

New York has won five straight postseason games, dating back to Game 5 of the NLDS. It is tied for the longest winning streak in team history. The Mets also won five straight from Game 2 of the 2000 NLDS through Game 2 of the NLCS.

New York has hit 14 home runs during the playoffs (seven in the NLCS and seven in the NLDS), a franchise-record for a single postseason. The previous mark was 12 home runs in 1969.

New York was 29th in the majors with 51 stolen base during the regular season, however the Mets have nine stolen bases, tied with Toronto for the most this postseason.

Mets Starting Lineup

Curtis Granderson, RF
David Wright, 3B
Daniel Murphy, 2B
Yoenis Cespedes, CF
Lucas Duda, 1B
Travis d’Arnaud, C
Michael Conforto, LF
Wilmer Flores, SS
Kelly Johnson, DH

Royals Starting Lineup

Alcides Escobar, SS
Ben Zobrist, 2B
Lorenzo Cain, CF
Eric Hosmer, 1B
Kendrys Morales, DH
Mike Moustakas, 3B
Salvador Perez, C
Alex Gordon, LF
Alex Rios, RF

We are finally here and the Mets are back in action tonight in the World Series! We last left off in Chicago as the New York Mets swept the Cubs in a four game set, punching their ticket to a World Series for the first time since 2000. It took the Royals six games to beat the Blue Jays on the way to their berth, their last game coming on Friday.

Matt Harvey will get the start for the Mets. In the postseason he has pitched 12.2 innings allowing 4 ER, 5 overall while striking out 16. His last start was the better one allowing 2 ER over 7.2 innings in the NLCS opener. He probably benefited the most from the Mets four game sweep as he was scheduled to start game 5, despite taking a comeback straight in the triceps. Harvey has never faced the Royals before and only Alex Rios (1-3) has seen him in a major league game, so he’s an unknown arm to KC.

The Mets bats will get a look at Edinson Volquez tonight, who went 13-9 over 34 games, 33 starts over 200.1 innings for KC this year with a 3.55 ERA. He’s been a bit over the map this year in the postseason allowing 3 ER over 5 hits and 5.2 innings in first start, allowing no runs over 6.0 innings and 2 hits in his second start and allowing 5 ER over 3 hits and 5 innings in his last start. In every start this year he has walked 4 batters. In 2014 he faced the Mets twice going 1-0 over 11.0 innings allowing 2 ER over 12 hits while striking out 13. The Mets have the following numbers against Edinson: