Welcome to this best-of-seven National League Championship Series thread between the 6th seeded Mets (89-73) & the 1st seeded N.L. West Champion Dodgers (98-64).
All games for this series will be covered in this thread. The Dodgers had the best record in all of MLB during the regular season & beat the Mets during the regular season 4 times,
winning the regular season series 4 games to 2. The Mets will be looking for some payback against the Dodgers the same way they did against the Brewers & Phillies, who they also lost their regular season series against. Click
HERE to read a preview of this Playoff Series. Enjoy 😊!
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Mets @ Dodgers: Game 1 –⚾Senga (R) vs. Flaherty (R)⚾– 8:15 pm EDT
Starting Lineups for both clubs tonight.
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Probable Starting Pitcher Matchups for tonight & tomorrow in Chavez Ravine against the Dodgers.
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#LFGM!
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Notes:
-Tonight’s game will be televised on
FOX and tomorrow's game will be on both on
FOX &
FS1.
-The weather forecast for tonight's game at Dodger Stadium is excellent. Click
HERE to keep updated & see the Hourly AccuWeather Reports from there.
-Click
HERE to see the Mets’ 26-man roster for the NLCS. There is one change overall: IF/OF Jeff McNeil for Reliever Adam Ottavino. This will be the 3rd time the Mets and Dodgers have met in the playoffs. They met before in 1988, 2006, and 2015 with the Mets winning in 2006 and 2015. Their most painful playoff series loss ever though was arguably to the Dodgers in 1988. Click
HERE to read about the playoff history between these two organizations.
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HERE to see the list of the Mets’ roster transactions so far in October.
-Click
HERE to see the Mets' 26-man active playoff roster for this series.
-The Mets' 5-man bench for tonight’s game will consist of
Torrens (R), Martinez (R), Bader (R), Acuña (R), & McNeil (L). 
McNeil, Acuña both make Mets' NLCS roster; Ottavino off | 2:06 pm EDT | By Anthony DiComo @AnthonyDiComo
-The Mets have got 14 roster players this time as opposed to 13 from the last two playoff rounds, hence a 5-man bench as opposed to 4. Let's see how things go with one less pitcher on the roster (tough luck Ottavino).
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Dodgers release NLCS roster: Kiermaier, Honeywell on; Rojas, Vesia off | 1:36 PM EDT | By Juan Toribio | @juanctoribio
-No Rojas and Vesia for the Dodgers.
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Mets in 6
-Mets will feast on the Dodgers' bullpen and knock around their starters. Our LHPs need to limit the damage their lefty hitters (namely Ohtani, Freeman, Muncy, & Lux) do.
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It's not magic. These guys deserve to be here. They've had the best record in all of baseball over the course of the last two-thirds of the regular season into the playoffs. If they beat the Dodgers, then I expect them to win the World Series.
Mets in 6
-Mets will feast on the Dodgers' bullpen and knock around their starters. Our LHPs need to limit the damage their lefty hitters (namely Ohtani, Freeman, Muncy, & Lux) do.
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It's not magic. These guys deserve to be here. They've had the best record in all of baseball over the course of the last two-thirds of the regular season into the playoffs. If they beat the Dodgers, then I expect them to win the World Series.
The word wasn't used as a slight. These last 2 weeks have been nothing short of magical. 3 of the top what, 10-15 post season moments in Mets history have happened. Different guys stepping up and not relying solely on the stars.
Hoping for a big night from Alvarez to hopefully get him going
MLB Network @MLBNetwork - 10:05 AM · Oct 13, 2024 · 90K Views - ( New Window )
P.S. Jeff had better be healthy and they had better be adding him only if he's healthy. Don't need any legacy roster spots at this stage of the game.
that said lindor and alonso have done well against Treinan and Daniel Hudson. LAD had 5 relievers pitch 2+ times vs SD, they were 2 of them along with kopech (had 3), phillips, banda (not good splits vs righties). phillips wasnt so good against lefties, so in game like today's i cant imagine they want him in vs lindor/nimmo/winker.
over a 7 game series if they can make a few of these LAD relievers liabilities it will have a big impact. if they need to go to kopech every time the top of the order comes up that's going to be a heavy load for him to carry.
you will notice right away 5 of the top 10 are not available in this series. flaherty and yamamoto are the 2 starters who are carrying a ton of run prevention in their arms, whereas the mets have the load split among 5 different starters who each have pitches that are distinct weapons.
Treinan and Kopech are carrying a ton of weight in the LAD BP.
on the mets side you can see they didnt have the same kind of depth but their good health has them in better position. there have been a bunch of athletic articles on this but u can see how enormously sinker dependent they are too.
here's senga from last year, obviously if he is in form that's a big boost as well:
with the sinkers being so prominent among met pitchers, here's how LAD hitters fared against sinkers this year, dont think they should throw any to betts:
*Pay close attention to Winker's numbers against him.*
Jose Iglesias 0-5, K
Francisco Lindor 0-4, BB, K
Starling Marte 4-22, HR, BB, 7 K
J.D. Martinez 1-2, K
Tyrone Taylor 0-4, 2 K
Jesse Winker 8-21, 2 1B, 2 HR, 3 BB, 3 K
P.S. Jeff had better be healthy and they had better be adding him only if he's healthy. Don't need any legacy roster spots at this stage of the game.
I was surprised by that also, not sure that was a good idea.
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with one less pitcher. It's their first best-of-seven, so it's almost certainly longer. I would've replaced Acuna with McNeil myself and added LHP Lucchesi to the roster in place of Ottavino.
P.S. Jeff had better be healthy and they had better be adding him only if he's healthy. Don't need any legacy roster spots at this stage of the game.
I was surprised by that also, not sure that was a good idea.
McNeil provides the flexibility to play OF if Taylor can’t rebound although it impacts our defense. I think the feeling is if they got down to Lucchesi anyway they could use Young or Megill to fill innings.
McNeil Back!
Senga for 50, DP ready to get nasty after
Beginning of season we all made our predictions and all agreed we wanted meaningful September Baseball. Wellll how about October baby.
Pumped LFGM!
Mets @ Dodgers: | 8:15 pm EDT start - October 13, 2024 – TV Broadcast: National feed – FOX: Davis & Smoltz (strfish.xyz)
Mets @ Dodgers: | 8:15 pm EDT start - October 13, 2024 – TV Broadcast: National feed – FOX: Davis & Smoltz (dudestream.com)
MLB.com - Gameday: Pitch by Pitch – Mets @ Dodgers – October 13, 2024 - 8:15 pm EDT start
Enjoy tonight's game 😊
Megill is the obvious choice to start the next inning.
And we are down a pitcher.
Yikes
fuck em
Win tomorrow and no one cares about this.
Would always rather lose like this than a heartbreaker
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Hey I'm pulling for the Mets to get to the WS. Plus I hate the Dodgers. I'd love to see a Subway Series.
Go Mets!
Lets get him out and see what this Dodgers bullpen's all about ....
Should get Jeff an at bat today. Maybe think about giving him an OF start?
Tough to come out and spot the other team 3 runs right out of the gate. Flaherty was on point all night but the Mets had a few times where they could have broke through, and just couldn’t get there.
Dodgers are playing loose and just getting the bat on the ball for hits. Might have been a different game if Senga wasn’t a complete disaster. I wonder how he looked warming up. Couldn’t have been good.
They definitely have the appearance of a switch being flipped once that happened.
That being said it's a 7 game series and the good news is I can't imagine the Mets playing worse than they did today.
We’ll be looking good if we can do that.
Starting Lineups for both clubs today.
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Probable Starting Pitcher Matchups for tonight in Chavez Ravine & after tomorrow in Flushing.
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#LFGM!
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Notes:
-Today’s game will be televised on FOX and FS1. Tomorrow's game will be on FS1.
-The weather forecast for today's game at Dodger Stadium is dandy again. Click HERE to keep updated & see the Hourly AccuWeather Reports from there.
-If you didn’t see it yet, click HERE to see the Mets’ 26-man roster for the NLCS. Click HERE to see the Dodgers’ NLCS roster too if you didn’t see it yesterday. The Dodgers have named their starting pitchers up until Game 4. The Mets have only done so up until Game 3. Today’s game will be a bullpen outing by the Dodgers. Click HERE to read about it.
-Click HERE to see the list of the Mets’ roster transactions so far in October.
-Click HERE to see the Mets' 26-man active playoff roster for this series.
-The Mets' 5-man bench for today’s game will consist of Torrens (R), Martinez (R), Bader (R), Acuña (R), & McNeil (L).
Mets @ Dodgers: | 4:08 pm EDT start - October 14, 2024 – TV Broadcast: National feed – FOX & FS1: Davis & Smoltz (strfish.xyz)
Mets @ Dodgers: | 4:08 pm EDT start - October 14, 2024 – TV Broadcast: National feed – FOX & FS1: Davis & Smoltz (dudestream.com)
MLB.com - Gameday: Pitch by Pitch – Mets @ Dodgers – October 14, 2024 - 4:08 pm EDT start
Enjoy today's game 😊
WOOOO!!
Go METS!!! F the Dodgers.