NEW YORK — The remarkable postseason journey of Daniel Murphy continued before many Mets fans could even get settled under their blankets Sunday night at Citi Field, yanking another home run into the right field stands to give the Mets an early 3-0 lead.
Murphy's set team records—his five postseason home runs are the most my any Met—while repeatedly blasting middle-in pitches into the seats. That the pitches have come from some of baseball's best—Clayton Kershaw, Zach Greinke, Jon Lester Saturday night and now, Jake Arrieta—doesn't seem to matter.
“Well, I think Dan Murphy is an All-Star,” his manager, Terry Collins, said after Game 1. “So I don't think it's something that's strange. I think Dan gets in the batter's box. We all know when he gets hot, he can hit anybody and he can do a lot of damage, and he's hot.”
The same could not be said of Citi Field, 45 degrees at gametime with swirling winds. But when Murphy, after narrowly missing a home run on a long fould ball two pitches earlier, connected on Arrieta's 80-mile-per-hour curveball, no Mets fan had any complaint about the cold.
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