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| Topps Baseball Card, 1974 |
Mets win the 1973 NLCS Playoffs, Dodgers tie 2015 Divisional Series as Utley Breaks Tejada's leg and Dodgers take 3-2 lead in 1988 NLCS.
Year: 2015; NLDS
Game #2; Saturday; Oct 10, NYM 2 @ LAD 5; boxscore; WP:
Zack
Greinke; LP: Noah
Syndergaard; Save: Kenley
Jansen; Time: 3:24; Day; Attendance: 54,455; Record: 1-1; L;
Curtis Granderson RF: 2 for
3; 1 walk; David Wright 3B: 0 for
4; 2·GDP; 1 K; Daniel Murphy 2B: 1 for
4; CS; 1 K; Yoenis Céspedes CF: 1 for
3; HR; 1 run; 1 RBI; Lucas Duda 1B: 0 for
3; 1 K; Travis d'Arnaud C: 0 for
3; 3 Ks; Michael Conforto LF: 1 for
3; HR; 1 run; 1 RBI; 1 K; Rubén Tejada SS: 0 for
2; 2 Ks; Wilmer Flores SS: 0 for
1; Noah Syndergaard P: 0 for
2; 1 K; Kelly Johnson PH: 0 for
1; 1 K; Noah Syndergaard, L (0-1): 6.1
innings; 3 runs; 3 ERs; 5 hits; 4 walks; 9 Ks; Bartolo Colón, BS (1): 0
inning; 1 run; 1 ER; Addison Reed: 0.1
inning; 1 run; 1 ER; 2 hits; Jon Niese: 0.1 inning; no runs; 1 K; Hansel Robles: 1
inning; no runs; 2 Ks;
Mets go up 2-0 on homers by Yoenis Cespedes and Michael Conforto in the 2nd as Noah Syndergaard starts out strong striking out 9 over 6 and 1/3rd innings. After he gives up a walk and a single with one out in the 7th, Bartolo Colon comes in, induces a ground ball and...
NY Post ‘Dirty’ Utley take-out slide fractures Ruben Tejada’s leg: "With one out and runner on first and third — Utley was on first via a pinch-hit single that ended Noah Syndergaard’s night and brought on Bartolo Colon — Howie Kendrick sent a smash toward the middle. Second baseman Daniel Murphy gloved the ball and sent an off-balanced — and high — flip to Tejada who caught the ball and spun. Utley came in late to the right of the base and took out Tejada. Utley hit the back of Tejada’s right leg, but also took a shot to the head from Tejada’s left knee. Tejada was carted off the field with his right leg in an inflatable cast for his fractured right fibula."
NY Post Utley’s dirty take-out slide dooms Mets as Dodgers even series: "Utley, who tormented the Mets for the last decade-plus in a Phillies uniform, was hell-bent on breaking up a double play and ensuring the tying run would score on Howie Kendrick’s slow grounder; Utley waited until he was nearly on top of second base to begin his takeout slide on Tejada. The run scored, and only adding to the Mets’ misery, Utley was ruled safe at second base after the Dodgers challenged the call that Tejada had touched the bag. Though “neighborhood” calls on double plays at second base aren’t reviewable, the umpires on the field determined it could be examined as a force play, according to MLB vice president of operations Joe Torre, because Tejada had no shot at the double play. Utley never touched the base, but according to Torre he wasn’t required to because he had been called out before the play was overturned."
Baseball Reference: The Mets are cruising along with a 2 - 1 lead behind rookie Noah Syndergaard in the 7th inning of Game 2 of the NLDS when Chase Utley barrels into SS Ruben Tejada to break up a potential inning-ending double play. He not only succeeds, but also breaks Tejada's leg in the process while the Mets vainly argue for an interference call. Major League Baseball will hand Utley a two-game suspension for his unnecessarily violent slide (later overturned), but in the meantime, Los Angeles takes advantage of the controversial play to score four runs in the inning and ends up a 5 - 2 winner, evening the series.
10/10/2015 Chase Utley breaks Ruben Tejada’s leg after “sliding” into second base. pic.twitter.com/W7CuWWUnGV
— This Day in Mets History (@NYMhistory) October 10, 2020
Lost in the “Utley Slide Game” is the fact that in his first postseason at bat Michael Conforto hit a LASER homer off of the Cy Young runner up, Zack Greinke. #ExtendConforto pic.twitter.com/we3BizBpKL
— MetsFanMania (@MetsFanMania) October 10, 2020
Year: 1988; NLCS
Game #5; Monday; Oct 10, NYM 4 Vs LAD 7; boxscore; WP: Tim Belcher; LP: Sid
Fernandez; Save: Brian
Holton; Time: 3:07; Day; Attendance: 52,069; Record: 2-3; L;
Lenny Dykstra CF: 2 for
3; HR,2B; 2 runs; 3 RBIs; 1 walk; Gregg Jefferies 3B: 2 for
4; 1 RBI; Keith Hernandez 1B: 0 for
4; 2 Ks; Darryl Strawberry RF: 1 for
4; 1 K; Kevin McReynolds LF: 1 for
4; Gary Carter C: 1 for
4; 1 K; Howard Johnson SS: 1 for
4; 1 run; 2 Ks; Wally Backman 2B: 1 for
4; 1 run; 1 K; Sid Fernandez P: 0 for
1; Dave Magadan PH: 0 for
1; 1 K; Mackey Sasser PH: 0 for
1; Roger McDowell P: 0 for
0; Lee Mazzilli PH: 0 for
1; Sid Fernandez, L (0-1): 4
innings; 6 runs; 6 ERs; 7 hits; 1 HR; 1 walk; 5 Ks; Terry Leach: 1 inning; no runs; 1 hit; 1 K; Rick Aguilera: 2
innings; no runs; 1 hit; 3 Ks; Roger McDowell: 2
innings; 1 run; 1 ER; 3 hits; 1 walk;
The afternoon after the Mike Sciocsia home run game, Sid Fernandez didn't have it as he allows 6 runs in 4 innings. This time a different Dodger backstop, Rick Dempsey, does the damage with a 2-run double off El Sid in the 4th. Kirk Gibson adds a 3-run homer in the 5th. Lenny Dykstra has his own 3-run shot in the Home 5th but Mets score only 1 more after that falling 7-4. Series now heads back to L.A. with the Dodgers up 3 Games to 2.
Year: 1973; NLCS
Game #5; Wednesday; Oct 10, NYM 7 Vs CIN 2; boxscore; WP: Tom
Seaver; LP: Jack
Billingham; Save: Tug McGraw; Time: 2:40; Day; Attendance: 50,323; Record: 3-2; W; Mets win 1973 NLCS series 3-2;
Wayne Garrett 3B: 1 for
5; 2B; 1 run; Félix Millán 2B: 2 for
4; SH; 2 runs; Cleon Jones RF-LF: 3 for
5; 2B; 1 run; 2 RBIs; 2 Ks; John Milner 1B: 1 for
3; 1 run; 2 walks; Ed Kranepool LF: 1 for
2; 2 RBIs; Willie Mays PH-CF: 1 for
3; 1 run; 1 RBI; Jerry Grote C: 1 for
4; 1 K; Don Hahn CF-RF: 0 for
4; 1 RBI; 1 K; Bud Harrelson SS: 2 for
4; 1 RBI; Tom Seaver P: 1 for
3; 2B; 1 run; 1 walk; Tom Seaver, W (1-1): 8.1
innings; 2 runs; 1 ER; 7 hits; 5 walks; 4 Ks; Tug McGraw, S (1): 0.2
inning; no runs;
In one of the biggest upsets in baseball the 82 win Mets beat the 99 win Reds in a 5 game Playoff Series.
Tom Seaver, on 3-days rest, pitched into the 9th allowing just 2 runs but after loading the bases on a single and 2 walks in the 9th with one out, gave way to Tug McGraw, who threw 4.1 innings the day before to get the final outs.
After the Reds tied the game at 2 in the top of the 5th, the Mets regained the lead with 4 runs in the bottom of the inning. Cleon Jones doubled in Wayne Garrett for the tie-breaker. After John Milner walked to load the bases, Willie Mays pinch hit for Ed Kranepool. Mays was credited with an infield single on a ground ball by the pitcher that scored Felix Millan and the Mets added two more on a Doh=n Hahn groundout and Bud Harrelson single.
October 10, 1973: Following the @Mets 7-2 win over the @Reds in Game 5 of the #NLCS to advance to the World Series, it was time to pop the corks with Yogi. Piggy (love his energy). Seaver. Kranepool. Millan. Milner. McGraw. #LGM #MetsRewind pic.twitter.com/6kTlmk82XM


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