Tuesday’s night’s Game 1 baseball masterpiece between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals, which ended in 14 innings on a sacrifice fly to right field by Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer scoring Alcides Escobar from third base, and gave the Royals a 5-4 victory was loaded with exotic and every day baseball feats.

An inside the park home run? Only the Mets, on the first pitch of the 2015 World Series, could allow an inside the park home run to Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar. Escobar is a notorious first pitch swinger, Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey offers a fastball down the middle of the plate, and Escobar drives the ball to deep left center field.

Mets center fielder Yoenis Cespedes is either still digesting the pregame buffet or sorting out how he missed the pregame lineup introductions because he was in the bathroom, and does everything in his power to give the Royals a one-run lead. Off the bat, Cespedes gets a Kyle Schwarber jump off the ball. Rookie left fielder Michael Conforto appears as if he has a play on the ball, but stops to allow Cespedes to catch the ball. Cespedes attempts to catch the ball, with a half-hearted backhand sort of stretch for the ball, which hits Cespedes and then caroms to the left. Conforto gives chase. Cespedes stands there. Escobar runs the bases in 15 seconds and celebrates the first inside the park home run in a World Series, since the legendary Mule Haas hit one in Game 4 of the 1929 World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics.

Uh … are you fucking kidding me?

An inside the park home run on the first pitch?

Cespedes walks back to center field, where the Fox production crew shows Cespedes doing stretching exercises.

He’s stretching? Now?

Asshole, the time to stretch is before the game. Unless you’re Ichiro who stretches throughout the game in the outfield, give me a break.

Uh … Manny Being Manny.

And that is Yoenis Cespedes being Manny Ramirez, because Cespedes has a lot of Being Manny in him. That American made dump truck, which is going to drop green American currency on the island of Cuba, may be smaller than originally thought.

Cespedes Being Cespedes

Sacrifice Bunt

In the top of the 11th inning, with the game tied 4-4, the Mets’ leadoff hitter Juan Lagares reaches on a infield single off Royals relief pitcher Ryan Madson.

Hitting in the eight spot, after Lagares, is shortstop Wilmer Flores, who is instructed by Mets manager Terry Collinss to lay down a sacrifice bunt and move Lagares to second. Flores is successful, Lagares moves to second, and Flores is thrown at first base. The Mets have a runner in scoring position with one out.

In baseball orthodoxy, Collins’ managerial move makes sense. He now has a base runner in scoring position with one out, and that one run could spell victory for the Mets.

I have a huge issue with Collins using Flores to sacrifice with no outs.

Following Flores in the batting order is Michael Cuddyer, who is in midst of a woeful slump, and had already struck out twice after replacing Casey Johnson as the designated hitter. What does Cuddyer do against Madson? He strikes out for a third time.

A team can expect to score approximately .827 runs with a runner on first and no outs. A successful sacrifice bunt provides the offense with a runner on second with one out, which lowers the chances of scoring to .62.

Examining the Mets’ situation, Flores has a better chance of getting a hit than Cuddyer. Cuddyer’s strike out puts Curtis Granderson at the plate with two outs. Granderson has been swinging a hot bat for the Mets, but I would have preferred seeing the Mets use all of their outs to drive in Lagares. In my opinion, Cuddyer could not be expected to get a hit or record a productive out.

In deGrom We Trust.