October 9th 2015 - NLDS Game 1 -- Mets 3, Dodgers 1

Friday night in Los Angeles, Jacob deGrom struck out 13 Dodgers in 7 scoreless innings. The Mets beat the Dodgers in game 1 of the NLDS with a 3-1 win.  It was deGrom vs Kershaw and the match up lived up to all the hype.  Kershaw was electric striking out 11 in 6 2/3 innings but the Mets were able to break through. In the top of the 4^th Daniel Murphy playing his first post season game ever and batting clean-up launched a 414 ft. solo homer into the bullpen in right to make it 1-0 Mets. In the 7^th the Mets loaded the bases against Kershaw. Kershaw gave way to Pedro Baez who took David Wright to a 3-2 count with 2 out when the Captain singled up the middle scoring Lucas Duda and Ruben Tejada for a 3-0 lead.  deGrom tossed 121 pitches and retired the last 11 to face him going 7 allowing 5 hits, 1 walk and striking out the baker’s dozen notching his first career post season win. deGrom’s 13 k’s ties an all-time Mets post season record set by Tom Seaver in game 1 of the 1973 NLCS. Tyler Clippard pitched the first 2 outs of the  8^th and allowed an RBI single to Adrian Gonzalez plating the Dodgers only run. Jeurys Familia finished the 8^th and pitched the 9^th for this 1^st post season save as the Mets take a 1-0 lead in this best of 5.  Saturday night it’s  game 2 of the series.  Noah Syndergaard (9-7 3.24) goes for the Mets, Zack Greinke (19-3 1.66) goes for Los Angeles.