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The Kansas City Royals backed the superb two-hit pitching of Johnny Cueto with a relentless attack to rout the New York Mets 7-1 and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven World Series.
Cueto, painting the corners and showing off his wide variety of deliveries, went the full nine innings in posting the first complete game in the World Series by an American League pitcher in 24 years.
Not since the Twins’ Jack Morris beat the Atlanta Braves in a 10-inning, Game Seven victory in the 1991 World Series, had an American League pitcher turned in such a performance.

"He was electric tonight," said Eric Hosmer, who supplied a clutch two-out, two-run single in the fifth inning to give the Royals their first lead of the game.
"It was the type of outing we needed, especially after the way we used our bullpen last night. So just a huge outing from a big time player."
Kansas City used seven pitchers in the 14-inning, 5-4 Royals victory in Tuesday’s Game One, but Cueto gave the entire bullpen the night off with his dominant performance.

The dreadlocked righthander was locked in a pitcher’s duel with Mets ace Jacob deGrom until Kansas City came to bat in the fifth after New York had grabbed a 1-0 lead in the fourth.
DeGrom had yielded just one hit over the first four innings but a lead-off walk to Alex Gordon got it started and five singles later, three of them after two outs, it was 4-1 for the home team and a three-run burst in the eighth made it a rout.

Cueto, added by the Royals in a trade deadline deal in July, retired 15 batters in a row before giving up a two-out walk to Daniel Murphy in the ninth before getting Yoenis Cespedes to fly out to right to end it.
The victory took the Royals, who lost last year’s World Series in seven games to the San Francisco Giants, halfway to winning their first Fall Classic crown in 30 years with the series shifting to New York for Game Three on Friday


Superb complete game from Johnny Cueto helps Kansas City take command of World Series

Johnny Cueto celebrates. Photo: AFP

Alex Gordon hits an RBI double in the eighth inning. Photo: TNS

Johnny Cueto in action in the ninth. Photo: AFP

Salvador Perez douses Johnny Cueto. Photo: AFP

Alcides Escobar scores past New York Mets catcher Travis d'Arnaud on a single by Eric Hosmer during the fifth inning. Photo: AP

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The Kansas City Royals backed the superb two-hit pitching of Johnny Cueto with a relentless attack to rout the New York Mets 7-1 and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven World Series
