Wright And The Rookie Lead Mets: World Series Game 3 In Numbers And Images

By Christopher Dean Hopkins / NPR

Published October 30, 2015 at 5:49 PM PDT

This story was published more than 8 years ago.

Noah Syndergaard of the New York Mets pitched Friday night against the Kansas City Royals during Game Three of the World Series in the Queens borough of New York City.

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Final score in the New York Mets' win over the Kansas City Royals, cutting the Royals' series lead to 2-1.

Runs batted in by longtime Met David Wright, who missed a month of the season with a painful spinal condition. His contribution included his second career playoff home run — almost a decade after the first, which came in the 2006 National League Championship Series.

Runs scored by the Royals lineup in their third at-bats against rookie Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard. Batters normally get better as they see more of a pitcher during a game, noted Grantland (RIP) before Friday's game.

Through the first two games, Royals hitters have made 14 plate appearances in which they were facing a Mets pitcher (in this case, Harvey or deGrom) the third time through the order. In those 14 PA, they've produced six singles, a double, and a sacrifice fly, scoring six of the team's 12 runs in the series.

Friday night during Game 3, Syndergaard struck out three of the first four batters on their third trips to the plate. He then gave up a single and walked two before getting out of the jam to end the sixth inning.

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Swinging strikes thrown by Syndergaard, compared to a combined 19 thrown by the other five starting pitchers in the World Series' three games, according to ESPN.

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Career World Series batting average for Syndergaard, who hit a single in his first-ever at-bat and then scored a run.

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Average miles per hour of Yordano Ventura's fastballs in Game 3, the slowest of his three-year career in the majors, according to scouting and information service Inside Edge. Ventura allowed three of the four leadoff hitters he faced to get on base, and gave up five runs in three and one-third innings.

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Combined runs allowed by the Royals bullpen in Games 1 and 2 vs. the runs allowed by the bullpen — relief pitcher Franklin Morales specifically — in Game 3.

Age of the Royals' Raul Mondesi, the first player to make his major league debut in the World Series. The son of a former pro, he hadn't had an at-bat above the double-A level before striking out in the fifth inning.

The time (ET) that Game 4 starts Saturday night, broadcast on Fox.