KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The latest on the World Series, which opens Tuesday night with the Kansas City Royals hosting the New York Mets (all times local):
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The Royals' Alcides Escobar has led off the World Series with an inside-the-park home run off Mets ace Matt Harvey.
Escobar, who has a penchant for swinging at the first pitch, did so again on Tuesday night, connecting for the second leadoff inside-the-parker in World Series history. Patsy Dougherty hit the first, in the second game in 1903.
Escobar hit a 95 mph fastball that the light-hitting shortstop sent screaming into the gap in left field.