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Last night was a great baseball game. There was a little bit of everything for all baseball fans — except the whole “Dodgers winning” part.
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Mets
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Dodgers
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6:07 p.m., TBS
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Los Angeles
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RF
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Granderson
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2B
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Kendrick
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3B
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Wright
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SS
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Seager
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2B
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Murphy
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1B
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Gonzalez
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CF
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Cespedes
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3B
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Turner
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1B
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Duda
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RF
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Ethier
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C
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d’Arnaud
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LF
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Crawford
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LF
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Conforto
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C
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Grandal
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SS
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Tejada
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CF
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Hernandez
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P
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Syndergaard (R)
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P
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Greinke (R)
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So, like last year’s NLDS, Zack Greinke is being asked to (basically) save the Dodgers’ season. He responded with seven scoreless innings and the Dodgers won on the strength of an eighth-inning Matt Kemp home run.
The offense struggled mightily against Jacob deGrom last night, but it wasn’t without its chances. There were plenty of opportunities when one base hit would have scored the Dodgers a run. Alas, they didn’t score until deGrom was out of the game, but it was too late.
Aside from a change in left field, the Mets are employing a pretty similar lineup. The Dodgers dropped Carl Crawford from the leadoff spot and inserted Yasmani Grandal at catcher (for A.J. Ellis) and Enrique Hernandez in center field (for Joc Pederson).
It doesn’t matter how many runs the Dodgers give up, if they can’t score, it won’t matter. I’m predicting the Dodgers fare better against Syndergaard than they did against deGrom, but that isn’t much of a stretch.
Baseball is great. It's also the worst thing in the world.
— Dustin Nosler (@DustinNosler) October 10, 2015
Here’s hoping tonight is the former.
