Tuesday night’s Game 1 defeat snapped the Royals’ record streak of eight consecutive victories to open the 2014 postseason while simultaneously raising the stakes for Game 2 tonight.

The 1985 Royals lost Game 1 of the World Series at home. Heck, they lost Game 2, too. And we know how that one turned out. So the Royals need look no further than their own organizational history to know they can recover from the drubbing they endured at the hands of the Giants on Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium. Both clubs are hoping their starter can go deep in Game 2, with Kansas City youngster Yordano Ventura opposing San Francisco elder statesman Jake Peavy.

With a 2-for-5, two-RBI performance in the Giants’ 7-1 Game 1 victory over the Royals, Pablo Sandoval improved his lifetime postseason batting average to .328. That moved him above Babe Ruth and just about everyone else on baseball’s all-time list. Among players with at least 125 playoff plate appearances, Sandoval now ranks ninth.

Madison Bumgarner continued to ensure his place in baseball history, while the Giants kept pursuing theirs with a 7-1 triumph over the Kansas City Royals in Tuesday night’s World Series opener at Kauffman Stadium.

The Giants are 5-1 on the road this postseason. And for a club that hasn’t had home-field advantage in any of the rounds, road performance is a necessity. The other half of it is this: The opposition can’t have a home-field advantage when Madison Bumgarner starts on the road, in the postseason, for the Giants. He gives up runs in October at roughly the rate of one every four years.

From the importance of winning Game 1 of the World Series, to Madison Bumgarner’s historic numbers, to the Giants’ overall postseason success, here’s a look at some of the interesting facts and figures from Tuesday night in Kansas City.

The most unsung aspect of the Giants’ success is how well they play defense. Alas, when shortstop Brandon Crawford booted a grounder in the third inning of Game 1 in the World Series on Tuesday night, it was the first error by a San Francisco position player since the National League Wild Card Game on Oct. 1.

The one chance the Royals had to get to Madison Bumgarner during Game 1 on Tuesday night was in the third inning, but the club most likely to make contact could not come through when it needed to most.

After being absent from the mound for nearly the entire past three weeks, Danny Duffy tossed three-plus innings of relief for the Royals in their 7-1 loss to the Giants in Game 1 of the World Series.

A day before he was to throw the first World Series pitch in Kansas City since 1985, James Shields spoke about his propensity for amnesia. The Royals’ ace will want to tap into that after a forgettable — and relatively brief — Game 1 start on Tuesday night.

Kauffman Stadium was awash in blue-towel-waving cacophony for Game 1 on Tuesday night — until Hunter Pence silenced everything but his own emotions with a homer off James Shields in the first inning.

It is not a move that Bruce Bochy would probably make in April, or even September for that matter, but the Giants manager knows that October baseball is a different animal. So when he had a chance in the fourth inning of Game 1 of the World Series to tack on some runs in the Giants’ 7-1 win and go for the Royals’ jugular, he did.

The Giants jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of their victory over the Royals in Game 1 of the World Series, but it could have been worse were it not for an impressive relay between Nori Aoki and Omar Infante that cut down Buster Posey at home.

Tuesday’s 7-1 Giants victory over the Royals in Game 1 was the first live stream of a World Series game in the U.S., representing a milestone in Major League Baseball broadcast delivery and allowing fans to watch on the go with an MLB.TV subscription.

Not only do the Royals utilize speed over power, but they also have had success deviating from the prototypical pitcher’s frame.

Major League Baseball dedicated Game 1 of its 110th World Series to veterans and military families, and the daylong activities included a visit by Commissioner Bud Selig, U.S. military brass and Royals legend John Mayberry to the Kansas City VA Hospital Honor Annex near Kauffman Stadium just before the Giants-Royals opener.

James “Sandy” Winnefeld Jr. is a four-star Admiral who currently serves as the ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the second-highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces. He also is an MLB.TV subscriber, a regular at Washington Nationals games, a former player and the father of a son who is currently pitching in high school.