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World Series Play-by-Play, Game 1

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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.

Giants Fourth: Sandoval doubled to center. Pence grounded out to shortstop Escobar to first baseman Hosmer. Belt doubled down the right-field line, Sandoval scored. Morse flied out to right fielder Aoki, Belt out at second on throw from pitcher Ventura to second baseman Infante.

1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 2, Giants 2.

Royals Fourth: Gordon flied out to center fielder Blanco. S.Perez grounded out to second baseman Panik to first baseman Belt. Infante grounded out to shortstop Crawford to first baseman Belt.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 2, Giants 2.

Giants Fifth: Ishikawa singled to center. Crawford grounded into a force play, second baseman Infante to shortstop Escobar, Ishikawa out at second. Blanco popped out to second baseman Infante. Panik flied out center fielder Cain.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 2, Giants 2.

Royals Fifth: Moustakas grounded out to second baseman Panik to first baseman Belt. Escobar struck out swinging. Aoki flied out to center fielder Blanco.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 2, Giants 2.

Giants Sixth: Defensive switch Jarrod Dyson in center field replacing Aoki and Cain moved to right field. Posey singled to center. Sandoval flied out to right fielder Cain. Pence infield single to short, Posey to second. Kelvin Herrera pitching. Belt flied out to left fielder Gordon. Morse grounded into force play shortstop Escobar to second baseman Infante, Pence forced at second.

0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Royals 2, Giants 2.

Royals Sixth: Cain singled to center. Hosmer walked, Cain to second. Jean Machi pitching. Butler singled to left, Cain scored, Hosmer to second. Javier Lopez pitching. Terrance Gore pinch runner for Butler. Gordon flied out to left fielder Ishikawa. Hunter Strickland pitching. With S.Perez batting on a wild pitch by Strickland, Hosmer to third and Gore to second. S.Perez doubled to center, Hosmer and Gore scored. Infante on a 1-0 pitch, homered to left, S.Perez scored. Jeremy Affeldt pitching. Moustakas singled to center. Escobar grounded into a double play, shortstop Crawford to second baseman Panik to first baseman Belt, Moustakas out at second.

5 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 7, Giants 2.

Giants Seventh: Ishikawa struck out looking. Crawford walked. Blanco walked, Crawford to second. Panik flied out to center fielder Dyson. Posey grounded out to second baseman Infante to first baseman Hosmer.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Royals 7, Giants 2.

Royals Seventh: Tim Lincecum pitching. Dyson flied out to left fielder Ishikawa. Cain grounded out to shortstop Crawford to first baseman Belt. Hosmer struck out swinging.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 7, Giants 2.

Giants Eighth: Wade Davis pitching. Sandoval struck out swinging. Pence struck out swinging, putout catcher S.Perez to first baseman Hosmer. Belt grounded out to firsr baseman Hosmer to pitcher Davis.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 7, Giants 2.

Royals Eighth: Josh Willingham pinch hit for Gore, struck out swinging. Gordon popped out in foul territory to third baseman Sandoval. With a 2-2 count on S.Perez, pitching change, Santiago Casilla pitching. S.Perez struck out swinging.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 7, Giants 2.

Giants Ninth: Greg Holland pitching. Andrew Susac pinch hitting for Morse, struck out swinging, putout catcher S.Perez to first baseman Hosmer. Ishikawa struck out swinging. Crawford singled to right. With Blanco batting Crawford to second on defensive indifference. Blanco struck out swinging, putout catcher S.Perez to first baseman Hosmer.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 7, Giants 2.

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