Category: Postseason
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Tyler Clippard to remain as eighth inning setup man
Tyler Clippard struggled down the stretch of the season, to the point Terry Collins was considering swapping Clippard and Addison Reed’s role to make Reed the primary eighth inning reliever. But on Thursday in Los Angeles, Collins said the team will stay the course and keep Clippard in his role in the eighth inning. Collins said…
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Terry Collins credits the Dodgers for his chance, looking forward to his new playoff challenge
On Friday night, Terry Collins will manage his first playoff game after spending 40 years in the game as a player, manager and a variety of different roles for several organizations. Collins reminisced about his time as a player in the Dodger organization in the early 1980s as his playing career was coming to an…
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Clayton Kershaw discusses facing a retro-fitted Mets lineup, Jacob deGrom
Clayton Kershaw is 1-0 with a 0.56 ERA in two starts against the Mets in 2015, having allowed just one run and eight hits in 16 2/3 innings against New York this season. But the Mets are 1-1 in those two starts, and Kershaw knows he will also be facing a different lineup than the last…
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Don Mattingly’s kind words for the Mets power-armed starting rotation
Throughout the week, the story for the Mets is how they might possibly overcome the challenge of defeating Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke potentially two times a piece in their best of five Division Series, which begins on Friday night at Dodger Stadium. But for the Dodgers, they’re faced with an equally, if not greater task of…
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MLB.com previews the Mets and Dodgers in the NLDS
Here, Matt Waymire and former Met GM and current analyst for MLB.com and SNY Jim Duquette preview the Mets and Dodgers National League Division Series, which begins on Friday night at 9:45 PM ET on TBS:
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