NEW YORK — The Kansas City Royals ended a 30-year championship drought by beating the New York Mets 7-2 in 12 innings in World Series Game 5 on Sunday night.
Here were the seven defining moments in the Royals’ title run:
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1. Eric Hosmer 's Mad Dash
Late-game rallies were the emergent theme of the Royals' playoff run, so of course a comeback clinched the champagne. Kansas City batted better than .320 and scored more than 40% of their runs in the seventh inning or later this postseason. The Mets’ Matt Harvey shut them out for eight innings in Game 5, but after three batters in the ninth, the Royals had scored once and moved the tying run to third for Salvador Perez . The catcher chopped a ball to third against a drawn-in infield — as David Wright threw to first, Hosmer broke for home and scored when Duda threw wide of the plate.
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