Daniel Murphy’s 7 postseason home runs

Rookie Kyle Schwarber smashes a home run into right field during Game 4 against the St. Louis Cardinals.

“This day would have been my mom and dad’s wedding anniversary, had they been alive”, he added, calculating that it was 73 years ago they were married.

The Mets swept that notion away.

Little League: “You think about playing in the World Series, but you don’t really think it can happen”, he said.

New York Mets fans have been saying for years “Ya Gotta Believe” and Wednesday night their faith and many years of being let down by their team was rewarded. “That’s ‘what if?’ This is reality”. To be able to completely reverse that 180 and now celebrate and get a chance to go to the World Series, I wish I could bottle it all. “A lot of positives to take away from this season”.

The Mets come out firing at home in Game 1 with Matt Harvey on the mound, followed by Noah Syndergaard in the second game – with both young aces making the Chicago lineup look like the Mets’ circa June 2015. But there’s plenty of hope. They’ll need to wait to find out, with Game 6 of the ALCS coming Friday and the Toronto Blue Jays a game away from elimination.

Comedian Jim Breuer has been posting videos all postseason long after each win by his beloved Mets.

Arrieta should win the National League Cy Young Award, but he scuffled a bit in the playoffs after a career high in innings.

Cubs pitcher Jon Lester, the team’s most important player acquisition last year as the organizational rebuilding plan took a quantum leap behind the hiring of manager Joe Maddon, said he could only take positives from the year.

“He’s incredible. He’s on a different planet right now”, Mets first baseman Lucas Duda said. “It didn’t end the way we wanted to”. “So for me to lament the situation like that, I’d be absolutely going against what we’re attempting to create within this organization”. Their first trip to the NLCS since 2003. Later in the series, he kicked his home-run binge into full gear, hitting a solo drive off Kershaw in Game 4, then homering off Zack Greinke in Game 5 to help New York to a decisive 3-2 victory.

Murphy’s streak-stretching homer put the Mets in front 8-1 and Kris Bryant’s two-run homer in the eighth for Chicago could only trim the final margin. Wolf said Wednesday night’s game was hard to watch. He noted that Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer will call those shots, but then made clear his priority. Now, you could say, well, that’s great; of course that means they’re going to win. Oh, and the pitching was pretty good too.

Despite the quiet loss in the NLCS, it will be viewed as a good year for Epstein, Maddon and the Cubs.

Murphy might be having the best month of them all.

The Cubs’ collective feet barely touched the ground the last two-plus months as a potentially interesting season turned into a thrill ride, but they fell to earth with a thud this week.

“I know I just said World Series a million times”. “Just don’t look at these last couple games and focus on that at all”. “There is going to be a time, which we’ve had this summer, where a ball was hit where if you were just in the normal – you’d be there”.