KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Play-by-play of Game 2 of the 2014 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals:
Lineups-Giants: Gregor Blanco (cf), Joe Panik, (2b), Buster Posey (c), Pablo Sandoval (3b), Hunter Pence (rf), Brandon Belt (1b), Michael Morse (dh), Travis Ishikawa (lf), Brandon Crawford (ss), Jake Peavy (rhp).
Royals: Alcides Escobar (ss), Nori Aoki (rf), Lorenzo Cain (cf), Eric Hosmer (1b), Billy Butler (dh), Alex Gordon (lf), Salvador Perez (c), Omar Infante (2b), Mike Moustakas (3b), Yordano Ventura (rhp).
Umpires-Home, Eric Cooper; First, Jim Reynolds; Second, Ted Barrett; Third, Hunter Wendelstedt; Left, Jeff Kellogg; Right Jerry Meals; Replay, Jeff Nelson.
Official Scorers- David Boyce (Royals official scorer), Jeff Passan (Yahoo! Sports), Susan Slusser (San Francisco Chonicle)
First Pitch- 8:09 p.m. EDT.
Giants First: Ventura pitching. Blanco on a 3-2 pitch, homered to right. Panik flied out to right fielder Aoki. Posey struck out swinging. Sandoval grounded out to pitcher Ventura to first baseman Hosmer.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Giants 1, Royals 0.
Royals First: Peavy pitching. Escobar infield single to shortstop. Aoki flied out to center fielder Blanco. With Cain batting, Escobar caught stealing second, catcher Posey to second baseman Panik. Cain doubled to left. Hosmer walked. Butler singled to left, Cain scored, Hosmer to third. Gordon flied out in foul territory to left fielder Ishikawa.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Giants 1, Royals 1.
Giants Second: Pence flied out to center fielder Cain. Belt struck out looking. Morse singled to center. Ishikawa grounded into a force play to shortstop Escobar, Morse forced at second.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Giants 1, Royals 1.
Royals Second: S.Perez lined out to first baseman Belt. Infante doubled to left. Moustakas flied out center fielder Blanco. Escobar doubled down the right-field line, Infante scored. Aoki lined out to left fielder Ishikawa.
1 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 2, Giants 1.
Giants Third: Crawford grounded out to second baseman Infante to first baseman Hosmer. Blanco grounded out to first baseman Hosmer. Panik singled to right. Posey grounded out to second baseman Infante to first baseman Hosmer.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 2, Giants 1.
Royals Third: Cain flied out to right fielder Pence. Hosmer grounded out to second baseman Panik to first baseman Belt. Butler flied out to center fielder Blanco.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 2, Giants 1.
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