Wright on big game: 'It's what you dream about as a kid'

David Wright waited 12 years to play a World Series game in New York. It only took him two at-bats to make his presence felt.

Wright homered and went 2-for-5 in New York's 9-3 victory Friday, becoming the first Mets player with at least four RBIs in a World Series game since Rusty Staub in Game 3 of the 1973 World Series.

The Mets third baseman wasted no time making his mark in the first World Series game played in New York in six years, when he electrified the crowd at Citi Field with a first-inning towering blast off Kansas City Royals starter Yordano Ventura for the second postseason homer of his career.

"It's what you dream about as a kid," Wright told reporters after the Mets' win. "Running around the bases, it was like floating. It's one of those moments that's going to stick with me for the rest of my life."

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Wright added another key hit in the sixth when he singled in a pair of runs off Royals right-hander Kelvin Herrera to extend New York's lead to 8-3.

Manager Terry Collins said he hopes the multi-hit effort will help jump-start Wright, who's battling spinal stenosis and entered Friday batting .182 with no RBIs in the first Fall Classic of his 12-year career.

"Certainly David has been struggling, he never makes an excuse," Collins said. "He's got to swing better; he knows that. Big hit for him, big hit for us. Got him going."