Murphy doing it all for the Mets as his solo home run puts the visitors in front 3-2, and that blast would turn out to be the difference maker, as New York hangs on to win the series three games to two.
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Jacob deGrom flirted with danger all night long in the win-or-go home NLDS Game 5 Thursday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the long-haired fireballer and reigning NL Rookie of the Year maneuvered his way through six gut-wrenching innings to keep the Mets in the hunt.
The feeling seems to be that Murphy will land with an American League team that will plug him into the designated role as often as not.
He got out of his first jam with back to back strikeouts with one out.
After Familia struck out Howie Kendrick to end the game, the Mets swarmed the mound, jumping up and down in unison. Murphy was on first base in the fourth-inning as Lucas Duda drew a walk.
“I’ve never been in the playoffs before”, Murphy said, “but I’m starting to understand how valuable 90 feet can be”. “I’m not sure who was supposed to cover, but there was nobody there”. Yet the Mets defeated the Dodgers in the National League Division Series on Thursday, leaving the playoffs with just one of the league’s top 10 teams in payroll. The underdog Dodgers stunned the Mets in a seven-game NLCS in 1988 on the way to their most recent World Series championship.
Murphy, who had three hits, batted.
“The Dodgers had the home-field advantage with Kershaw and Greinke pitching four times in a best-of-five series”. “We’ve going to enjoy this now, but we know we’ve still got a tough Cubs team that we’re going to have to play and it’s going to be a hard-fought series. Pretty much hits everybody’s fastball”. During the delay a group of umpires (identity and number unknown) reviewed pictures of the play in New York and ruled that Tejada had not touched the base and therefore the Utley was safe.
The Mets will have little time to rest with Game 1 of the new series on Saturday night at Citi Field.
After the game, Manager Terry Collins said the team owes a lot to its pitching roster, with Murphy giving Syndergaard a shoutout. “If the guys here this year are all back next year, we’ll have the guys”.
The Dodgers were blanked over the final two innings by Mets closer Jeurys Familia.
The 2015 Major League Baseball postseason has been high on drama, with all but one of the division series going to a decisive game five.
Murphy’s RBI double in first got the scoring started.
Los Angeles failed to capitalize with two runners on in the second and third. After Turner doubled leading off the third, Ethier popped out to left.
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“Mattingly says he has been treated well by Dodgers baseball president Andrew Friedman and the entire new front-office regime, but word is he hasn’t been told anything, one way or another, regarding his future”, Heyman added in another piece.
