Despite owning two of the Top 3 payrolls in baseball, neither the Mets nor the Dodgers arrive at Chavez Ravine for the Natinal League Championship series without having overcome major adversity. May 29th the Mets were swept by the Dodgers at Citi Field to fall to 22-33 overall. That was the 5th worst record in baseball. They seemed to be in disarray and staring at a long four remaining months of the season when all of a sudden Grimace showed up, Francisco Lindor was moved to the top of the lineup, and OMG the Mets began to roll. They finished the season 67-40 which was the best mark in all of baseball and qualified for the playoffs on the final day of the regular season. Pete Alonso led the Mets to a pair of Wild Card wins against the Milwaukee Brewers and Francisco Lindor powered the squad to a divisional series win over Philadelphia.
The Dodgers entered the playoffs as the National League’s top seed and they earned it having to win with the following pitchers sidelined for large chunks of the season: Clayton Kershaw, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, Tony Gonsolin, and Gavin Stone. Yamamoto missed July and August but did return in September and was brilliant in Game 5 of LA’s series against the Padres throwing 5 innings of 2-hit, shutout ball. Mookie Betts also missed a couple months but LA’s lineup was stacked most of the season and in the end, the Dodgers found enough arms to combine with those bats to continue dominating the regular season in the National League as they have for the past handful of years.
New York and Los Angeles meet for the National League Pennant beginning Sunday.
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Game details & how to watch Mets @ Dodgers – NLCS Game 1
● Date: Sunday, October 13, 2024
● Time: 8:15 PM ET
● Site: Dodger Stadium
● City: Los Angeles, CA
● TV/Streaming: FOX
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