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The Mets got a balanced supply of offense and a good-enough performance from ace Matt Harvey, as the Utley drama took a backseat to a good ol' baseball beatdown. *The loss puts the Dodgers on the brink of elimination heading into Game 4 on Tuesday in New York.
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• Travis d'Arnaud made the Dodgers shake their head a couple of times. The Mets catcher — who is a SoCal native — singled in the first inning to bring home New York's first run, then his two-run homer in the third inning put a nice distance between the Mets and Dodgers on the scoreboard.
• Curtis Granderson helped the Mets wipe away a 3-1 deficit in the second inning when he unloaded a bases-loaded double. It made the score 4-3 and signaled the Mets' offense was not going to silenced in Game 3. This wasn't the dagger, but it quickly neutralized the Dodgers' early outburst. Granderson finished the night with five RBIs after a seventh-inning double. That one was just the Mets piling on.
• Matt Harvey wasn't at his Matt Harvey best in Game 3, but he did well enough and didn't empty his arm in the process. (You know, that innings limit and all). Harvey threw 97 pitches over five innings, allowing three runs on seven hits. He struck out seven. Good enough, right?
• Howie Kendrick hit a three-run homer in the ninth that made the score a more respectable 13-7. It was too late to really matter, though.*
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• Mets relief pitcher Erik Goedell, who was getting up some work in slop-up time and, boy, was it ugly. He gave up four hits and three runs without getting an out. It was benign, considering the score, but still not a performance to be happy about.
#Mets Bartolo Colon is the oldest pitcher to K the side without allowing a baserunner in the #postseason since Dolf Luque on Oct 7, 1933.
— Ace of MLB Stats (@theaceofspaeder) October 13, 2015
— Ace of MLB Stats (@theaceofspaeder) October 13, 2015
• Utley. He didn't play. But oh well, he's still the most talked-about guy in MLB right now. The Mets fans booed him and brought signs dissing him, but the Dodgers didn't bring him off the bench. As the Mets were ahead by seven runs, the Citi Field crowd was still chanting "We Want Utley. We Want Utley."*
• The postseason potential of the Mets, who've already showed us they can pitch great. If they're also crushing the ball at the plate, they could be a very dangerous team capable of a deep October run.
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