Daniel Murphy homers in sixth straight playoff game, easily wins NLCS MVP
The 2015 New York Mets did the unbelievable and Daniel Murphy, their postseason sensation, accomplished the unthinkable.
The Mets are headed to the World Series, sweeping the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS with an 8-3 win Wednesday night at Wrigley Field, and two of those runs came on yet another homer by Murphy. That’s six straight postseason games in which Murphy has homered. There’s locked in, then there’s what Murphy has been this postseason.
[Related: Mets complete sweep, reach first World Series since 2000]
His homer streak is a postseason record and dates back to Game 4 of the NLDS. His postseason stats thus are just crazy talk: .421/.436/1.026 with seven homers and 11 RBIs in nine games. Teammate Curtis Granderson put it best after the Mets’ clincher, per Tim Rohan of the New York Times:
Murphy was, with absolutely zero question, the series MVP. He hit as many homers in the series (four) as the Cubs did. Consider that the Cubs generally a slugging team and Murphy’s 14 homers in the regular season were a career high. Heck, there were two seasons with the Mets where he hit six homers all year.
And it wasn’t like Murphy just hit a homer in Game 4 and that was it. He was 4-for-5 in the game and scored two runs.
If anybody deserves that clubhouse champagne shower, it was Daniel Murphy.
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