Murphy stole an uncovered third base and went on to score the tying run, then hit a go-ahead homer off Zack Greinke to lead the Mets over the Dodgers 3-2 Thursday night and into an NL Championship Series matchup with the Chicago Cubs. Yes, the Mets traded for Tyler Clippard at the deadline, but his 6.14 ERA in the last month of the season has manager Terry Collins a little gun shy. “We’ve done it all year long”.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 10: Yasiel Puig #66 of the Los Angeles Dodgers watches from the dugout in the third inning while taking on the New York Mets in game two of the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium on October 10, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers defense completely shifted on the right-side of the infield for Duda, Murphy pulled off the unusual yet intelligent play by going first-to-third on the walk.
Rookie shortstop Corey Seager, the closest infielder, was nearly all the way toward second. “That, I would say, you can still accept them but I do disagree with the lifestyle, 100 percent'”.
Murphy scored on former Lakewood High School standout Travis d’Amaud’s sacrifice fly. Heyman notes that the Dodgers still have a good chance at retaining him, but it’s fair to wonder how much money their new front office will be willing to commit to him.
And for the Dodgers, too. I just missed it. Wished I wouldn’t have. Reggie Jackson’s two RBI doubles helped Catfish Hunter beat Seaver, 3-1, in Game 6. In the top of the sixth Murphy took a 3-2 pitch from likely Cy Young Award victor Zack Greinke over the right-field wall for the game victor. “With a. 320 batting average at the start of August, 2011 was shaping up to be Murphy’s best season to date”.
“Daniel was a tough out all series”, Mattingly said.
“You travel, [the] things that guys go through to get here is extraordinary, and it comes to a crash and you can’t – I don’t think there is any way to soften that blow”.
“I really don’t believe it does”, he said.
Syndergaard threw a hitless seventh in the rookie’s first big league relief appearance, and Jeurys Familia was flawless in the first six-out save of his big career. Conforto was just 1-for-7 but he took good cuts and went deep in Game 2 against Greinke. The last third of this game was, weirdly enough, anticlimactic compared to the first two-thirds, as if the baseball gods squeezed everything they could into the first 36 outs and then looked around befuddled when the tank ran dry.
The Dodgers have failed to win a National League pennant for 27 consecutive years, extending their team record. The right-hander, who led the majors with a 1.66 ERA, struck out nine and walked one. There is a strong likelihood that Grienke will get $150 million over five years, which is significantly better than the six-year, $147 million contract the Dodgers signed him to three years ago.
“When I got the pitch and put the swing on it, I got excited”, Murphy said. “This time I finally made a decision to submit and give everything to Him'”.
If Murphy wasn’t New York’s hottest bat in the NLDS, it was RF Curtis Granderson, who hit.
The family will return to Citi Field on Saturday night and Sunday for the opening two games of the NL Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs. He did all he can to keep his team in this series, and it simply just didn’t work out.
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What Murphy and Mets fans are still waiting to see, besides trying to win their first World Series title since 1986, is whether the 30-year-old infielder will remain with the only team he’s played for since being drafted in the 13th round out of Jacksonville University in 2006.
