Kansas City Google Fiber subscribers miss Alcides Escobar’s leadoff HR

Kansas City residents with Google Fiber missed the first part of Tuesday’s World Series Game 1 between the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals.

And yes, that means those with Fiber in Kansas City didn’t see Alcides Escobar’s first-pitch inside-the-park home run in the bottom of the first inning.

The outrage, as you can imagine, was intense.

This isn’t happening right now…Are you serious @googlefiber?? Picked a wonderful time to go out here in KCMO.

— Chase Daniel (@ChaseDaniel) October 28, 2015

You have made an enemy this day @googlefiber

— THE FaKCe Ned (@TheFakeNed) October 28, 2015

THANKS FOR NOTHING @Googlefiber!

— Jake Yadrich (@JakeYadrich) October 28, 2015

Everyone in KC with @googlefiber right now (myself included) pic.twitter.com/AkaCDtKIKN

— Jared Coffman (@Sweet_Jerry87) October 28, 2015

THIS ISNT WHAT THE WORLD SERIES IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE!!!! #Googlefiber pic.twitter.com/cm9RfV1SHv

— Amy Anderson (@AmyKCTV5) October 28, 2015

Hey @googlefiber ! What the hell- why did service go out as the game started!!! Our whole block is down!

— Chris Hernandez (@CHernandezKCMO) October 28, 2015

Google came to Kansas City in 2012 as part of the company’s effort to offer internet with download speeds as fast as 1 GB per second with television service. Many Kansas City residents signed up for the Google’s services as soon as they could because of the price differences between Google and the other, established multimedia providers in the city.

A report earlier this year said there were 27,000 Fiber television subscribers in the Kansas City area.

Since the game was broadcast on Fox, however, people with Fiber did have an alternative. And if they wanted, they could have pretended like they were watching the Royals in the 1985 World Series as long as they had an antenna still laying around.

Pssst. People with Google Fiber…it’s on network television…you can disconnect your cable and watch it over the air…

— Melissa Yeager (@melissayeagr) October 28, 2015

Some users started getting service back in the bottom of the second inning.

@ChaseDaniel My fiber is back, come on over.

— Chris Shaffer (@cmshaffer07) October 28, 2015

And Google apologized.

We’re so sorry about the outage in KC. We know it couldn’t have happened at a worse time, and we’re working as quickly as we can to fix it.

— Google Fiber (@googlefiber) October 28, 2015