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300 Words Or Less: Mets Tear Up Plan, Spit Out Dodgers

By Joey Wahler

The Mets playoff clincher in Los Angeles wasn’t a perfect game. Just the perfect game.

How else to describe beating Zack Grienke, 19-0 this year with a lead, and 35-5 lifetime at Dodger Stadium?

After a homer, double, single, two RBIs and two runs scored, Daniel Murphy said, “What a team win. It felt like everybody got a piece of this one.”

Yet this hardly went according to plan. Murphy, often the untimely gaffe King, steals a run, catching the Dodger infield napping in the fourth inning.