Mets sweep Cubs to reach World Series

Mets sweep Cubs to reach World Series, Daniel Murphy chased his son, Noah, up the third abject band at Wrigley Field. Manager Terry Collins sprayed albino on a baby accumulation of admirers abaft the visitor's dugout. David Wright blood-soaked in the moment he chased for so long.

A new bearing of Amazins is branch to the World Series.

BOX SCORE: METS 8, CUBS 3

Murphy homered for a almanac sixth afterwards postseason game, and the New York Mets brushed abreast the Chicago Cubs 8-3 on Wednesday night for a National Alliance Championship Alternation sweep.

"I can't explain it. It's such a absolution to accord to what we've been able to do," Murphy said.

Lucas Duda hit a three-run adjudicator in the aboriginal inning and a two-run bifold in the additional at Wrigley Field, silencing a army of 42,227 badly acquisitive for the alpha of an ballsy improvement in Bold 4.

Not this time. Not with New York's arrangement of ability arms, and Murphy accepted a hot stick that fabricated him the NLCS MVP.

The Mets never trailed adjoin the Cubs and avant-garde to the World Alternation for the aboriginal time back they absent to the crosstown Yankees in 5 amateur in 2000. They will play at either Toronto or Kansas City in Bold 1 on Tuesday night -- the Royals advance 3-2 in the ALCS.

But the aboriginal big catechism for New York is the bloom of centermost fielder Yoenis Cespedes, who larboard in the additional inning with anguish in his larboard shoulder. Any bloom affair for the slugger could be a big agency in the next round.

"Cespedes' accept is traveling to be OK," Collins said. "They didn't anticipate there was any damage. They anticipation an bang would calm it down in a day, so he'll be ready."

The Cubs, meanwhile, still haven't won the acme back 1908. Manager Joe Maddon's wild-card agglomeration surged into this series, but was overmatched.

"They did not let us up for air at any point," Maddon said. "Their ascendancy of the aboriginal allotment of the bold and their casting was impressive."

When Dexter Fowler looked at a alleged third bang for the final out, Jeurys Familia alone to his knees in foreground of the bank and again hopped up for a hug from catcher Travis d'Arnaud. They were anon abutting by the blow of their celebrating teammates in the infield grass.

By wrapping it up fast, the Mets can now set up their arty circling how they ambition for the World Series. Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard will all be on abounding rest, and again some.

"This is a continued time coming," Wright said. "We've been through some bad times. We've been through Septembers area you're just arena out the agenda and that's no fun. To be able to absolutely about-face that 180 and now bless and get a adventitious to go to the World Series, I ambition I could canteen it all. I absolutely do. That's an affect I'll never forget."

Right if it looked as if his celebrated band was advancing to an end, Murphy affiliated for a two-run drive to centermost adjoin Fernando Rodney in the eighth inning. The additional baseman aloft his appropriate arm as he angled aboriginal afterwards his seventh adjudicator of the playoffs -- the cord includes a attempt in the chief Bold 5 of the Analysis Alternation at Dodger Stadium endure week.

Murphy, who was angry with Carlos Beltran for the postseason adjudicator streak, accomplished with four hits and batted .529 (9 for 17) in the series.

D'Arnaud aswell homered as the Mets won their fifth pennant. Bartolo Colon pitched 1 1-3 scoreless innings for his aboriginal playoff win back 2001, for Cleveland at Seattle. The 14 years, 12 canicule amid postseason victories for the 42-year-old right-hander airtight the above alliance almanac of absolutely 14 years for Milt Wilcox, according to STATS.

Colon, who fabricated 31 starts this season, replaced amateur Steven Matz with two out in the fifth and runners on aboriginal and second. He addled out Kris Bryant accepted on a 3-2 pitch, attention New York's 6-1 lead.

Bryant hit a two-run adjudicator in the eighth, but it was way too backward for Chicago in its aboriginal actualization in the NLCS in 12 years. The Cubs shut out Pittsburgh in the wild-card bold and alone battling St. Louis in the analysis series, but were clumsy to arise abundant of a claiming adjoin the Mets' accomplished casting staff.

"I anticipate we're in a abode cipher accepted us to be and we can be appreciative of that," Bryant said. "We were four wins abroad from traveling to the World Series. I anticipate a lot of humans didn't absolutely apprehend us to be here."

The Cubs aswell loaded the bases with no outs in the fourth, and alone came abroad with one run on Kyle Schwarber's grounder to first. Starlin Castro lined appropriate to Wright at third on a harder accident for the aboriginal out.

While the Mets' casting bedeviled abundant of the series, it was bright the Cubs were in agitation afterwards aces Jon Lester and Jake Arrieta alone the aboriginal two amateur in New York. Kyle Hendricks lasted just four innings on Tuesday night, and Jason Hammel was even worse in Bold 4.

With two out and a agent on in the first, Hammel absolved Cespedes afore Duda hit a continued drive to centermost for his aboriginal playoff homer. D'Arnaud followed with a attempt to appropriate for the Mets' additional set of afterwards homers in playoff history, abutting Darryl Strawberry and Kevin McReynolds in Bold 4 of the 1988 NLCS adjoin Los Angeles.

Hammel was replaced by Travis Wood afterwards a one-out airing in the second, and Duda collection home two added runs with a bifold into the gap in right-center. Duda was just 3 for 24 in the playoffs advancing into the night.
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