Mets Clinch NLCS Spot with Lindor's Grand Slam: A Recap

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00:00The New York Mets with Jose Quintana on the bump against a

00:06playoff start, by the way, in Ranger Suarez, who was really

00:10good for the Philz yesterday, had a chance, booked as a home

00:14favorite New York, to earn a spot in the NLCS for the first

00:18time in nearly a decade. They were down 1-0 into the home

00:23half of the six. The bases were loaded for the guy that if

00:26Shohei Otani did not exist, would win National League MVP.

00:30That's Francisco Lindor, the star of this Mets organization.

00:35The player they look to in those significant stages with

00:38the bases juice, delivers. A grand slam in a home half of

00:44the sixth to put the Mets in front, 4-1, and to send the

00:48Amazons into the National League Championship Series for the

00:52first time since 2015. A memory DRS for this Mets franchise

00:58that will live on forever.

01:00Yeah, it was a big moment there. You know, you ask your

01:02superstars to perform in the biggest moments, and you got

01:05that from Francisco Lindor. Wasn't having a great series,

01:07ended up hitting .259, which is okay, but the impact of that

01:10one swing, where they did not have a single run and turned

01:12it into four runs, you knew the game was over that point

01:15in the bottom of the sixth inning. And also, the New York

01:17Mets could have many more runs than those four, that four

01:19spot in the sixth inning, but Ranger Suarez was absolutely

01:22duty in that performance with a lot of key strikeouts. Same

01:25thing with the Philadelphia Phillies. They got that one

01:27run lead. You knew you needed more out of that. There was

01:29still first and third with one out with a runner on third

01:31base after that error by Mark Vientos. And then you say

01:34to yourself, hey, oh, well, you have a pop fly to right field

01:38and a strikeout, and you only got one run when you could

01:40have increased it and certainly turned it up. You saw that

01:42crowd, which was so electric to start the game at Citi Field,

01:45was absolutely dead silent by the fifth inning because nothing

01:48was going their way, and you left the door open. You bring

01:51in relievers that walk, guys. You bring in relievers that

01:53throw wild pitches. You put all the leverage on closers coming

01:56into the game that aren't used to coming in in a bases loaded

01:59situation, and you wind up with a grand slam victory there.

02:02So, I want to give credit to the New York Mets superstars

02:04which stepped up in the biggest moments when the Phillies

02:06players, look, shout out Bryce Harper, hit .333 in that series.

02:09He was okay. Yeah. Nick Castagnanos hit .412 in that series.

02:12Everybody else, Schwarber, .125, Turner, .200, Bohm, .077,

02:17Real Newport didn't even get a base hit. Hit zero. Stott, .182.

02:20I mean, you got to be kidding. Marsh, .077. You're not going

02:23to win baseball games when two players out of nine show up

02:26for you. That's what happens.

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