That decision hinges on how Noah Syndergaard feels on Saturday. According to the ticket-tracking site TiqIQ, if the Dodgers had won their series against the Mets, tickets for Cubs-Dodgers games in L.A. would have averaged $366 on the secondary market-compared with $846 for the average Cubs-Mets ticket at New York’s Citi Field.
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Chicago hit 10 home runs in the four-game NLDS, and hit seven home runs in seven games during the regular season against the Mets, all Cubs wins.
Matt Harvey will start against Jon Lester in the series opener.
The storylines are set, and this could turn out to be one of the most memorable National League Championship Series in years.
Harvey realizes the wisest move for his future would be to shut it down, call it a season, and be there for his teammates next year, and the year after, and the one after that, while still employed by the Mets. And here they are in October, perhaps a year or so ahead of schedule.
“I certainly am happy that they are playing against each other”, he said. “The difference in the two records was the 0-7 we had against the Cubs”, Sandy Alderson said. The Cubs had a lower ERA than the Mets this year, while New York had more home runs and a higher slugging percentage. So despite their obvious differences, this really isn’t a few head-to-head clash of baseball cultures and philosophies.
“I wouldn’t describe it as urgency, ” Alderson said, “but this goes back to before the trade deadline”. Still, everyone involved is acutely aware of all the young talent that will be on display.Weve kind of ascended. “Cubs fans, I have a lot of ’em, but I also have Mets fans, so it’s going to be a lot of fun”.
“I felt like we had our own culture, our own ability to rewrite history”, said Glanville, who doesn’t apply the weight of Cubs history toward the events of Game 6; the Marlins went on to beat the Yankees in the ’03 World Series. When he was hired to manage the Angels before the 1997 season, Collins chose Maddon to be his bench coach.
It is something Collins was fully aware of and would be taking into consideration. It was the first time the Mets were swept in a season series of seven games or more and the first time Chicago did it since 1885 against the Buffalo Bisons. The oldest person on the Mets’ postseason pitching staff is deGrom at 27, and the Cubs have just two players in their everyday lineup older than 28 (Miguel Montero, 32, and Dexter Fowler, 29). 865 WHIP. But what most hitters say is that the explosive power on his pitches seems to come out of nowhere.
“This is how it should be, and I think the manager, Joe Maddon, brought that to the organization, to the players in the clubhouse”, Cubs great Billy Williams said.
It’s been a long wait for the Cubs – their last World Series appearance was in 1945.
Try being a Cubs fan. With the city at a frenzied fever pitch, Chicago is trying to end a championship drought that dates to 1908. After all, the team they will run out against the Cubs this time hardly resembles the one they had earlier in the summer.
Objectively, Baker said he believes “everything favors the Cubs”, starting with the Mets having to travel back from Los Angeles late Thursday/early Friday, whereas the Cubs have been getting R&R since polishing off the Cardinals on Tuesday. And this is the first time they’ve ever met in the playoffs.
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“We’re exhausted. I mean, I put my head on the pillow this morning at 9:30 and got to be here now”.
