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SALT LAKE CITY — Welcome to today's World Series and football infused From Left Field!
1. More baseball history set in World Series Game 1
No inside-the-park home run had been hit in a World Series game since 1929. No leadoff inside-the-park home run had been hit since Game 2 of the 1903 World Series (the very first one!). And no leadoff inside-the-park home run had ever started a World Series, especially not on the very first pitch.
Alcides Escobar changed all that Tuesday night with this swing.
Impressive, Alcides.
2. Meanwhile, what happened with the Royals' pitcher was even more dramatic
Edinson Volquez's father, Daniel, died Tuesday, just hours before Volquez was slated to pitch Game 1 of the World Series. But his wife and family chose to wait to tell him until after he pitched the game.
As a result, Fox, which broadcasts the World Series, chose not to tell TV viewers about Volquez's father's death, because of the chance Volquez would hear the news from in-dugout broadcasts. It was only after Volquez left the game that Royals GM Dayton Moore took him to manager Ned Yost's office, where his family was waiting for him to tell the news.
I mean, that's an incredible story.
3. The NFL is fining players who lost their parents
Meanwhile, the National Football League is treating dead parents with much less respect. DeAngelo Williams lost his mother to breast cancer. He's even in the NFL's breast cancer awareness PSAs.
But when he wore eye-black that brought awareness to breast cancer during the NFL's breast cancer awareness month, the NFL fined him for not meeting uniform guidelines.
Wait! It gets even worse! Williams has been wearing the eye black for five years now, and this is the first time he's been fined by the league. During the NFL's breast cancer awareness month.
Editorializing here: it really continues to make no sense whatsoever that the NFL shoots itself in the foot with stupid public relations decisions like this.
4. A fun football highlight
People, though, will continue to watch football because it has some pretty neat highlights. The Robinson High School Knights from Tampa, Florida, are near the goal line on this play, when the quarterback throws in some impressive trickery and execution to score the touchdown.
No look pass...@SportsCenter@FOXSports@sctop10@espn@ESPNNFL@FlaHSFootball@TBHomeTeam@NickWilliamsTBOpic.twitter.com/wScPQocViH — Robinson Football (@RHS_FB_Knights) October 25, 2015
