Mets Fans Pumped For NLCS Game 1 Against Cubs At Citi Field

The Mets, at that point, were three and a half games behind the Nationals, while the Cubs were a game and a half ahead of the Giants for the second wild card, before dropping behind San Francisco and eventually rallying to make the playoffs easily.

“They’re an entirely different team”, he said.

“I don’t think you can ignore history”, Alderson said.

Lester, meanwhile, will be making his 16th postseason appearance and 14th start.

“Absolutely”, he said. “Going into a seven-game series and having the opportunity to line up for two games, I couldn’t be happier and more ready for it”. Chicago won six. New York won in 1994, when Michael Jordan played baseball instead of basketball.

The team and fans are no doubt anxious to get back to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field and prove they’re the best in the National League. No way could they have expected him to go 22-6 with a 1.77 ERA or to have an 0.41 ERA from August 4 through the end of the regular schedule – the lowest such stretch since the major leagues started keeping track in 1913.

The Cubs last did it in 1908, when the World Series trophy was a block of wood. And, as New York is the largest city in the country, the pool of people who want tickets is huge. The last team to win the World Series in consecutive years: the 1999 and 2000 New York Yankees.

“If he didn’t show you tonight, he had command of nothing, and all he did was battle and battle and battle to give you six innings”, Mets skipper Terry Collins said after Game 5, per MLB.com. When he was hired to manage the Angels before the 1997 season, Collins chose Maddon to be his bench coach. The Royals would add three more singles and a double to score four runs and chase Price from the game with two outs in the sixth. “That’s something that I just take into consideration throughout the training process, trying to prepare your body as best as possible”.

No matter the number of disappointments, being a Cubs fan is about unconditional loyalty, said Buick.

Cubs’ fever is in full swing in Chicago.

The Cubs visited New York for three more games from June 30 through July 2 and saw a similar roster. Tyler Clippard and Addison Reed were acquired to deepen the bullpen.“I think we all believe that were a completely different team, ” Harvey said. The team relied primarily on home runs to beat the Cardinals in four games, but with cold temperatures in the forecast for the first two games of the series, the team might have to get creative and manufacture runs instead against a tough Mets pitching staff. But when the hype died and the predictions were cast, the Chicago Cubs were too young and the New York Mets wouldn’t hit. In 1969, the first year of divisional play, the two teams were then both in the NL East. The Cubs led the division from opening day until September 1 and held a commanding nine-game lead as late as June 15. They flew back to the East Coast overnight, their fourth cross-country flight in 10 days. “But weve got a night off, and this place is going to be fueled with a lot of energy tomorrow night.