Despite the monster numbers and historic feats, Murphy isn’t mulling postseason achievements just yet.
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The trio of Wade Davis, Kelvin Herrera and Luke Hochevar has combined to go 3-0 with three saves this postseason, yielding just one earned run in 18 appearances with 28 strikeouts in 21 innings. The Mets have great pitching and the other-worldly Daniel Murphy. 227 in the divisional series. Rookie Steven Matz already has started two postseason games after only six regular-season starts. The ball club is hitting on all cylinders when it counts the most.
It was Linehan’s husband, the music producer Andrew Koss, who wrote most of the lyrics for the song, taking time out from a recording session to infuse a few additional baseball references into the tune. You know what Terry Collins said to us before we popped the champagne? “Everybody is on the same page”.
And you’re starting to see that happen with other organizations. Yet, it’s all smiles in MetsLand. A dead even one, too, beginning Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium. In what would have been a surprise before the season began, it will be the Mets. “It’s like getting [unexpected] presents under the tree”, Johnson said.
The 1986 Mets were anchored by a supreme rotation that included Dwight Gooden, Bob Ojeda, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, and Rick Aguilera.
Chris Rose: I want to see if the Mets can pick up where they left off against the Cubs. The spectacular fountains everywhere you look are very cool, and the barbecue is more seductive than that girl who used to wink at you in English class back in high school. The ongoing verbal battle is one I will never forget. The Royals go to their vaunted late-inning relievers once they have a lead, and they nearly always get the job done.
DeGrom is not doing this alone of course.
But for a group of very young starters that has thrown more innings this year than it ever has before, perhaps a few extra days will be beneficial. Since 1914, 28 players have had regular-season home-run streaks of at least six games, and just two players on that list had lower home-run rates than Murphy in the season of their streak: Kevin Mench in 2006 and George “Highpockets” Kelly in 1924. Cain and the other fleet outfielders seem to catch everything, and young ace Yordano Ventura has made his mark with every hard fastball. It never took, for me, nor do I recall any of my friends becoming serious Mets fans, either. “The Royals have the home field and all that experience”.
So how has Kansas City’s staff been able to neutralize Murphy? That might not be quite as easy against the Royals. But in all the excitement, Ventura didn’t even make it to second base as the Mets mobbed him halfway there. An avid listener of WFAN for decades, Chazz was as kind and gracious with this trembling sportswriter as anyone I’ve met in or out of sports. In Kansas City, that joint will be jumping. Does it give the Royals an advantage? I like the underdog as much as the next guy, but going from the Dodgers – one of the great teams in baseball history, with four future Hall of Famers (Robinson, Campanella, Snider and Reese) in the everyday lineup, and who played damned good ball – to the ’62 Mets was too much to ask. “He’s right on them”. Then, on October 8, Dante was a guest on LTV East Hampton’s The East End Show with host Bill Fleming, along with guests Claude Beudert, Hugh King and Alex Walter, where his impressive knowledge of baseball was again on display.
They followed that up on Wednesday night in Game 2 by embarrassing the Mets, 7-1, at the hands of the Royals. Wilmer Flores has stepped up.
In the 1945 World Series, the Cubs were favored against the Detroit Tigers.
Then, once we secured a playoff spot, everybody looked at us and said, “Well, you guys didn’t clinch home field”. The Royals are not the Cubs.
Murphy was MVP of the National League Championship Series in which New York swept the Chicago Cubs four games-to-none.
David Wright often frequents the bar, according to Clancy, and proceeds from his namesake sandwich (buffalo chicken with bleu cheese dressing) go to the David Wright foundation.
In Kansas City’s dugout, you’ve got Ned Yost, who declared the 45-minute rain delay in Game 6 of the ALCS against Toronto to be “a pain in the ass”. These Mets have beaten huge names like Lester, Arrieta, Kershaw, and Greinke in these playoffs.
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New York’s second baseman has unsurprisingly been added to the 2016 ballot, while the rest of the candidates will wait until St. Patrick’s Day to be introduced. Johnson worked as a coach in the Mets organization and he has had a relationship with several of the current players. He keeps in touch with many of them. So when you say that you disagree with who I am, you are also disagreeing with my son and my family. “You feel like you’re a little part of something since they’ve developed under you”. They’ve got all the fundamentals.
