The Cubs won all seven regular-season games against the Mets in 2015, although both teams will start from scratch when they meet for Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday in New York.
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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. Playoff results are a total crapshoot and anyone can get hot; making it to October is the real challenge, and it’s one Mattingly has consistently met.
After his heroics this series, it’s finally time to recognize the true impact that Murphy provides, and that he has been one of the main anchors of the Mets lineup.
Murphy shocked the sleeping Dodgers by stealing an uncovered third base and went on to score the tying run.
Murphy, a self-described Christian, said, “I disagree with the lifestyle”. “I’m not sure who was supposed to cover, but there was nobody there”. The steal would prove to be crucial as Travis d’Arnaud delivered a sacrifice fly to tie the game. By the way, those two other homers were off Clayton Kershaw.
“Daniel was a tough out all series”.
Covering the Nationals this season I saw quite the Mets 18 times and I will tell you that without question the best young pitcher they have is deGrom. “Pretty much hits everybody’s fastball”. He started the scoring in the first inning when he scored Curtis Granderson with a double to left field. “We’ve done it all year long”.
Syndergaard threw a hitless seventh in the rookie’s first big league relief appearance, and Jeurys Familia was ideal in the first six-out save of his big career. “I don’t remember any [pennant] races”, Collins said. The Cubs outscored the Mets, 27-11, and allowed one run in three games at Citi Field.
As of Friday, the average listing price for Mets tickets was $838.40, according to TiqIQ, while Cubs tickets were listed for an average of $1,228.16.
Los Angeles failed to capitalize with two runners on in the second and third. When asked if he wanted to play for the Dodgers next season, Greinke said “That would be nice”, and went on to say, “I guess that is my whole response”.
The story of NLDS will be the lack of hitting from the Dodgers.
With the Mets clinging to a 3-2 lead after his homer in the sixth Thursday night, Murphy referred to his faith in describing what he was feeling knowing there was still time for the Dodgers to regain the lead.
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Of course, all seven games against the Cubs were played before the Mets underwent a midseason makeover and added Yoenis Cespedes, Juan Uribe, Kelly Johnson and Michael Conforto to the offense, Steven Matz to the rotation and Tyler Clippard and Addison Reed to the bullpen.
