>>>>2015 NLDS game3- DODGERS @METS

METS WIN 13-7!

Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that I use the METS SHOW MUSCLE caption every chance I get. If we're lucky, I'll use it again tomorrow night!

You all saw the game. It was awesome!

Check out the cards.

Tejada got a nice hand from the Citi Field crowd.

Love the cane!

Ya chickenshit!

Good to see Rusty up and around. 

Shrewd move Mattingly. Ya jerk.

                   

Matt didn't have his good stuff but he battled through 5 innings. He settled down after giving up 3 runs in the 2nd.

 CLUTCH!

Granderson with a clutch bases loaded double has New York answering right back to take the lead in their half of the second. 

  

d'Arnaud delivers!

Huge homer from lil d'! 

We needed his bat to wake up and it did, with 3 hits & 3 RBI.

 Cespedes viciously attacked a Wood fastball and sent it into orbit. It was Yoenis second homer in the NLDS.

He also went 3 for 5 and drove in 3.

Colon came on in the fifth and pitched a shut down inning.

Colon went two, surrendering 1 run.

Granderson drove in another two runs in the 7th to make the score 13-4 New York. Curtis drove in a total of five runs.

Things got a little bumpy as Eric Goeddel gave up a 3 run homer in the 9th, but Jeurys Familia came on to close the deal.

^Another card caption I'll be happy to use over and over and over and.....................

Photography by Howard Simmons & Andrew Mills & John Munson

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Mets Home Opener and THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS!

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2015 NLDS game2-METS @DODGERS

Dodgers even it up. Mets take the split.

   

I'll fill in the rest and have more cards tomorrow. Tough loss. I don't want to whine but calling Utley safe on that review was just a horrible, horrible call.

Matt Reynolds will be called up to replace Tejada. Remember Matt from spring training? I do.

2015 NLDS game1-METS @DODGERS

From my perspective game one of trhe 2015 NLDS was spectacular!

It was pretty much a picture perfect dream come true. We beat the Dodgers & Clayton Kershaw in their own house. deGrom was magnificent! Murphy and Wright are the offensive stars!  Familia bails out Clippard with a 4 out save to close it! Mets win game one! Woohoo!

What a great pitching duel. 

Great at bats in the first inning by Wright and Murphy set the tone as they aggressively swung at strikes and laid off anything out of the zone. One thing that impressed me is that the Mets were swinging. They weren't waiting around for something to happen. They were trying to make things happen by being aggressive but were very wise in their pitch discretion. Offensively this was impressive.

Cuddyer had some problems in the outfield but deGrom was able to get out of the jams he created.

Murphy doesn't like when
someone else does the #1 thing.

In the 4th inning Daniel Murphy crushed Kershaw's third pitch of the inning for a long home run deep into the Mets bullpen in right. I thought it was fitting that Murph should get it started.

Murphy would also make a great play at first base in the later innings.

New York would score again in the 7th and a crucial play was deGrom laying down the perfect sacrifice. 

This bunt set the stage, as Granderson worked out a HUGE walk and effectively knocked Kershaw out of the box. He was done. In comes LA reliever Pedro Baez to pitch to David Wright.

Could it get any sweeter than this?

Familia bailed out Clippard & the Mets with a pretty smooth four out save.

What can you say about Jacob deGrom? He out pitched Clayton Kershaw. Together they set a record for combined strikeouts in a postseason game. 24 total Ks. deGrom also tied Tom Seaver's franchise record 13 K in a postseason game. Tom struck out 13 Reds in game one of the 1973 NLCS, and he lost!  Amazin'!

deGrom: 7 IP, 5H, 0ER,1BB,13K

Mets are up 1-0. Could they take two in L.A.? Grenke coming up. As always, I'll be happy to split...but we already got one!

GO GET EM THOR!!

LETS GO METS!

Photography by Stephen Dunn & Howard Simmons

The mfc NLDS border was scavenged from this Topps opening day design.