Mets Have hard Franchise History in Elimination Games

A top-notch pitching matchup highlights the winner-take-all Game 5 of the NLDS between the Dodgers and Mets tonight in Los Angeles. Los Angeles will be putting Major League Baseball ERA leader, Zack Greinke on the mound, while the Mets are rolling with Jacob deGrom.

Still, if the Mets lose Game 5 it will sting, not only because this team hasn’t won a title in about 30 years and because they will have lost to an inferior team with two fantastic pitchers and a dirty former Phillie, but it will really hurt because I just don’t want this season to end and I don’t want this group to be split up – which it will – no matter how far they go.

Mets fans congregated just miles away from Dodgers stadium, including the co-executive producer of The Simpsons, a New Jersey transplant featured on PIX11 in 2014, and one 53-year-old who was celebrating his birthday by going to Game 5. I like that we can go with deGrom, Thor and Familia.

“I’m not fleet afoot”, he said, “but I was just fast enough to be able to get in there and make it”.

The Dodgers had hits in their first two at-bats with runners in scoring position. He said the issue is whether Grandal can swing without pain; catching would not bother him.

Murphy’s opposite-field RBI double in the first drove in the game’s first run. Greinke won Game Two, 5-2, in seven innings. Fellow starter Noah Syndergaard started warming up as early as the second inning, and deGrom pitched his only 1-2-3 inning in the sixth. Meanwhile the Dodgers will attempt to sign their free agents, look into the market and fix the mistakes that plagued them this series in particular.

Greinke (1-1) gave up three runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings.

Asked where the loss leaves him for next season, manager Don Mattingly replied, “Seriously, you’re asking me that now?”

It hardly mattered, though, because the Dodgers’ ace, Orel Hershiser, was at the top of his game and threw a five-hit shutout to send his team to the World Series.

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In 1986, Ron Darling got the ball for Game 7 of the World Series against the Boston Red Sox.

“It would be nice to be back”, he said in a quiet clubhouse.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are playing for the win as they are at home. As we’ve seen already this series, momentum means nothing.