He went 3 for 3 against Greinke, the No. 2 pitcher of the Dodgers, who couldn’t stave off elimination for the second straight game.
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Jacob deGrom allowed two runs and six hits over six innings for the victory, striking out seven and walking three. His solo home run off Zack Greinke in the sixth gave New York the lead for good.
Greinke was 1-1 in the postseason, yielding five runs (including three homers) in 13 1/3 innings.
That turned out not to be the case in the Mets’ 3-2 win over the Dodgers on Thursday night, as both teams scored in the first inning, and the Dodgers in particular looked to have the measure of the opposing starter. When Lucas Duda walked, Murphy, when reaching second base, took off for third when no Dodger was covering the bag.
Travis d’Arnaud followed with a sacrifice fly, and Murphy hit a home run in the sixth for a 3-2 lead.
The right-handers combined for nine strikeouts in the first two innings alone, following in the pattern of a series in which the clubs came in with a total of 89 whiffs, tied for the most ever after four games in postseason history.
Coming into Sunday night’s Game 2 against the Chicago Cubs, the New York Mets have had quite the week.
This will be the Mets’ first trip to the NLCS since 2006 when they lost in seven games to the eventual World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals.
He then backtracked and said he was keenly looking forward to the postseason but missed a mandatory workout ahead of their first playoff series, again bringing his resolve into question.
Greinke will now join a free agent class with multiple ace-type pitchers, such as David Price, Jordan Zimmermann, Johnny Cueto, and others.
After the Mets beat the Dodgers in the Division Series, the rookie tweeted, “Our enemy has been vanquished…Odin is pleased” – a reference to Thor’s father. With one out, Murphy’s double scored right fielder Curtis Granderson, who led off with an infield hit.
A few of their frustration may have come to the fore in the third inning, when outfielder Andre Ethier was seen yelling at manager Don Mattingly in the dugout. Although I believe he could get just as much money from the Cubs or Red Sox if the teams are interested in him.
The Dodgers have failed to win a National League pennant for 27 consecutive years, extending their team record.
“I’m not a player, so it’s not that big a deal, but you still get that feeling of being in enemy territory in one of the biggest and best cities in the world”.
Another season in the books and the drought continues for the Los Angeles Dodgers who have not won a World Series since 1988.
“We got here because we have very, very good pitching”.
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“When you’re facing Kershaw and Greinke in four of five games you know that runs are going to be at a premium and they have definitely been that with those two guys on the mound”, Wright said.
