Teoscar Hernández bounced the ball out in front of the plate with nobody out and a runner on first in the second inning of a scoreless NLCS Game 2. Francisco Alvarez fielded it and had a choice to make: the sure out at first or the risky throw to try to get the lead runner at second. If an 8-0 loss can have turning points, this may have been one of them. Alvarez fired to second, but his throw...
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Good morning, Mets fans! The last four times the Mets were shutout, they won the next game. (And that includes Game 2 of this very series.) Kiké Hernández hit his 15th postseason home run (200 at-bats) and Shohei Ohtani hit a 410-foot, three-run blast as the Dodgers spoiled the first NLCS game at Citi Field in nine years with an 8-0 victory over New York to take a 2-1 series lead. The...
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Citi Field will be ready with Grimaces, OMG signs and a specialty cocktail called playoff pumpkin. (If you want to drink along at home, it’s rum, ginger ale and pumpkin spice syrup with an orange wheel.) Darryl Strawberry will throw out the first pitch to Dwight Gooden. It’s been nine years since the Mets hosted a National League Championship Series game. The Mets are three wins away...
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At a Citi Field news conference Tuesday, manager Carlos Mendoza revealed that J.D. Martinez is likely to get his first NLCS start in Game 3. Martinez slumped through September but went 4-for-14 over the first two rounds of the playoffs. The Dodgers are starting right-hander Walker Buehler in Game 3 so it is a mini-surprise that Mendoza said “there’s a good chance” Martinez will...
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For Francisco Lindor’s latest trick, he broke up the Dodgers’ postseason record-tying 33-inning scoreless streak. “I was just trying to have a quality at-bat and get the guys going,” he said after the Mets’ 7-3 victory in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series. “I was not trying to hit a home run. Just trying to stay within myself. I’m trying...
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