Nightengale: Royals' win one of October's most memorable games

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It had perhaps the strangest World Series delay in history, the craziest World Series homer in nearly a century, two critical errors, a dramatic ninth-inning home run and one of the most courageous pitching performances anyone can imagine.

Where else can you have a game stopped by a TV power outage, the first World Series inside-the-park homer since 1929, an error that resurrected memories of Bill Buckner and a lights-out closer giving up a homer to the No. 8 hitter?

By early Wednesday morning, Game 1 of the World Series might be remembered simply for being one of the most memorable produced in October.

The Kansas City Royals, who lost the 2014 World Series, pulled out a stunning 5-4, 14-inning victory against the New York Mets, tying the score on Alex Gordon's one-out homer in the ninth off Jeurys Familia and after Mets right fielder Curtis Grandersonmade a brilliant running catch in the 11th, winning it when Alcides Escobar scored onEric Hosmer's sacrifice fly.