Daniel Murphy

And they get a leadoff hit by Jose Reyes.

Daniel Murphy can't bunt them over.

David Wright strikes out with a runner on second and one out.

And I remember being so frustrated with David in this moment because a lot of the arguments were, who do we blame? Not for the collapse because the Mets aren't collapsing.

The number three entry, May 28, 2013.

The Mets honor Mariano Rivera in what would become his last season in the show, but that honor goes away when they're down 1-0 in the ninth inning and put together three straight hits by Daniel Murphy, David Wright, and Lucas Duda to complete a 2-1 comeback and win the game.

I thought it was really nice that the Mets let Mo throw out the first pitch in this game.

They honored him at the All-Star game that year as well.

By the way, because of the designation that he got, he's got a maximum of five regular season games to get ready for the playoffs, which leads me into my next topic.

I got Murphy's, the other Murph, Daniel Murphy's player perspective.

Yeah.

I have my, which didn't align exactly with my common sense perspective.

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Uh, just real quick, Braves lose last night at home to, uh, Tampa, but Phillies lose at home to Houston, so as long as the Phillies lose and that gap stays at four, uh, if, if you're a Braves fan holding out hope of being a top two seed, I- that's, that's just about gone.

The schedule's too tough.

Uh, lots on our table here.

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Ryan Zimmerman at first.

Daniel Murphy hitting fifth and fielding at second base, obviously.

Cubs fans more than aware.

of Daniel Murphy, Jason Wirth in left, Wilson Ramos in centre, Danny Espinosa at short, and the nine-hitter and starting pitcher, Joe Ross.

Yeah, it's pretty damn good, so it is.

Bryce Hopper's coming into this season, obviously, with an MVP award under his belt.

yeah it's it's i don't know if the power is not necessarily optimized in the way that all your kind of driveline and everyone would be would be doing now or if it's just that kind of what I'll call Nico Horner power, where he can hit line drives, he can hit the ball hard enough for pretty hard hit line drives, little drop in the outfield, but he can't hit the ball hard enough for them to actually make the wall

yeah yeah I think that's pretty spot on so it is for Tommy La Stella for sure someone who can do that though is Chris Bryant although he didn't do it this time he did ground out but it got Tommy La Stella the third and then Anthony Rizzo came out and he flew out the end the inning so much like the Nationals top of the first the bottom of the first the Cubs strand one runner

The reason they have to believe it is because somebody's not just gonna come in and hit eight homers in a playoff run.

Like, there's not that Daniel Murphy type of moment on this team.

Except you just win the games the exact same way.

You line up against the opponent that you have and you execute your style in the box and you see if you're better than them in the postseason.

So here you go.

Daniel Murphy, very similar to Pete Alonzo.

Longtime Met, flawed guy, wasn't a great base runner, really didn't have a position, defensively didn't always, you know, make the right play.

Let's put it that way.