Beltre exited Game 1 with lower back stiffness and didn’t return until he was a late addition for Game 4, where he hit two singles and a deep fly out despite clearly still having issues. And considering that the Dodgers’ odds of winning the series (according to our Elo ratings) rose from 35 percent to 52 percent with the victory, the slide will probably go down as one of the most pivotal plays of the entire postseason.
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Harvey fell behind 3-0 in the second inning before the Mets broke loose. Yasmani Grandal capped it off with a bases clearing single.
A three-run homer in the ninth by Howie Kendrick narrowed the gap. He lasted fewer than four innings just once in 31 regular-season starts.
“The first couple of innings was really special”.
They didn’t get him. The throw from Granderson sailed wide of third baseman David Wright, which allowed left fielder Carl Crawford to score a third run.
Reynolds spent time with the Mets during spring training, batting. Granderson and d’Arnaud did the damage for New York, driving in five and three runs, respectively. He was outpitched by Jacob deGrom in a 3-1 defeat at Los Angeles in the series opener.
Cespedes took a long, admiring look at his three-run drive in the fourth off Alex Wood that soared into the second deck in left field and travelled an estimated 431 feet. Music from “The Natural” played as he rounded the bases. Fans cheered wildly and the atmosphere for first pitch was electric.
For his part, Utley has said it was just a hard baseball play and he had no intention of injuring his opponent, while Dodgers manager Don Mattingly decided not to play 12-year veteran Utley.
Then with Philadelphia, Utley angered the Mets in 2010 when he slid hard into Tejada. Tejada labored onto the field wearing a walking boot and using a blue and orange cane with the interlocking “NY” logo. “While I sincerely believe that Mr. Utley had no intention of injuring Ruben Tejada, and was attempting to help his club in a critical situation, I believe his slide was in violation of Official Baseball Rule 5.09(a)(13), which is created to protect fielders from precisely this type of rolling block that occurs away from the base”.
Mets manager Terry Collins pulled Harvey after only five innings in which the polarizing star pitcher exhausted 97 pitches.
Trying to save the Dodgers’ season, ace Clayton Kershaw will start on three days’ rest in Game 4.
– Shortstop Matt Reynolds has been called up by the New York Mets in the middle of the postseason.
The 34-year-old Granderson went 2-for-5 with 5 RBIs, tying a Mets franchise postseason record and taking another major step in what has been an impressive, if somewhat under-the-radar comeback season. His. Oakland A’s INF Mark Kiger did it in 2006. Kershaw has typically avoided making any comments that would stir controversy over the course of his career.
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Utley’s agent, Joel Wolfe, called the two-game suspension “outrageous and completely unacceptable”.
