KANSAS CITY, Mo. — They took second on a fly ball to deep left-center, advanced a runner with a bunt and hit in the clutch. In other words the Giants introduced themselves to the World Series with their business model.
All that crispness was backed by Madison Bumgarner's sensational outing in a 7-1 victory over the Royals in Game 1 Tuesday night in front of 40,459 at Kauffman Stadium who hoped Kansas City's first Series appearance since 1985 would be better than it was.
Game 2 of the best-of-seven Series is Wednesday night when Jake Peavy starts for the Giants, who have an early lead in their quest to win a third World Series in five years. Yordano Ventura goes for the Royals, who had their record-breaking streak of eight victories to start a postseason fractured.
Hunter Pence's two-run homer highlighted a three-run Giants first inning against the struggling James Shields, who passed a painful kidney stone last week, a situation he said Monday wouldn't affect him.
Shields was charged with two more runs in the fourth when he departed without getting an out. In three-plus innings Shields allowed five runs and seven hits.
Shields admitted Monday he wasn't pleased with his postseason performance.
"I haven't pitched the way I wanted to. There is no doubt about it, I feel I definitely could pitch better,'' said Shields, who has gone from "Big Game'' to "Big Lame." In four postseason games he has a 7.11 ERA. He has given up 28 hits in 19 innings.
Gregor Blanco, a .159 (7-for-44) postseason hitter, opened the game with a soft single in front of center fielder Lorenzo Cain. After St. John's product Joe Panik's fly to left-center was deep enough to advance Blanco to second, Buster Posey stroked a single to left that put runners at the corners for Pablo Sandoval, who entered the tilt batting .326 (14-for-43) in the postseason.
He crushed a double that hit the right-field wall on a bounce.
Blanco jogged home but third-base coach Tim Flannery tried to score Posey from first and he was out by a step thanks to a fine throw from right fielder Nori Aoki to second baseman Omar Infante. His relay toss to the plate was perfect for the out.
Pence followed by sending a 93 mph, 3-2 fastball just to the right of straight-away center field and the visitors led 3-0.
Bumgarner, the best starter in the World Series whose 18 wins were three less than major league leader Clayton Kershaw's 21, cruised to his third October win in five starts.
In seven innings the lefty allowed three hits and a run. Bumgarner is 3-1 with a 1.40 postseason ERA.
Counting getting Eric Hosmer to ground to the right side to leave the bases loaded in the third, Bumgarner retired 12 straight until Salvador Perez homered with two outs in the seventh. That
halted Bumgarner's postseason record of 32 ²/₃ scoreless innings on the road. It also snapped his scoring World Series innings streak at 21 ²/₃.
The Giants added two runs in the seventh with the help of Royals right fielder Aoki turning a Panik single to right-center into an RBI triple. Sandoval added his second RBI with a single.
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