LOS ANGELES — It goes like this sometimes in Hollywood.
Think about “48 Hrs.” Nick Nolte had the top billing. But then Eddie Murphy went into that redneck bar and came out the biggest movie star in the world. No one remembers the billing or much of what Nick Nolte did in that flick. Murphy inhabited Reggie Hammond, owned every frame he was in.
That was Eddie Murphy’s movie.
Just as Game 1 of the National League Division Series belonged to Jacob deGrom. He came in the co-star to Clayton Kershaw and left having authored one of the best-pitched games in the history of the Mets — particularly when you account for where he did it, when he did it and against whom he did it.