Baseball

Sometimes it's just best to move on.

Best for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Best for Don Mattingly, too.

It's time for them to find a manager their front office of analytical all-stars can truly embrace. It's time for him to find a team that truly appreciates what he can do.

Fact: New York Mets' Daniel Murphy is the first player to hit a home run in six straight postseason games.

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One league championship series down, one to go. The New York Mets completed their surprising sweep of the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley on Wednesday, as Lucas Duda drove in five runs and Daniel Murphy smashed a homer in the Amazins' 8-3 victory.

For the second consecutive season, the Kansas City Royals will have an opportunity to secure a spot in the World Series with one more victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. 

With their season on the line for the third time already this postseason, the Blue Jays got a tremendous start from Marco Estrada and a big sixth inning to force a sixth game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday. 

"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." - Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox, 2001 

Both the National League and American League Championship Series have given us plenty of memorable moments to talk about for years and years to come. 

Many of those moments have been provided by some of the unlikeliest candidates. Over the next few slides, we'll rank a few of those surprise impact players. 

Surprises come in different shapes and sizes.

The 2015 World Series matchup will be set soon enough. After Wednesday's Championship Series action, one participant for the Fall Classic has been determined.

The numbers mean nothing, and yet they mean everything.

Nobody who knows anything would say that David Price can't pitch in the postseason, but by now just about everybody knows Price hasn't won in the postseason—not once, at least not as a starter.

Seven career starts. Seven losses.

CHICAGO — Holy Doc Gooden!

“Growing up, I spent what seemed like thousands of summer afternoons in my backyard in Chesapeake, Virginia, pretending I was playing in the World Series,” Mets captain David Wright was saying, dream firmly in hand, just after he had reached out and seized it late Wednesday night. “Then the last out, you realize the next game you’re going to play will be a World Series game.”

Regular-season Daniel Murphy is an OK player. Pretty good, even. If we really want to stretch, we can say he might even be quite good.

But postseason Daniel Murphy? He's something else, man. Just going off the evidence, he's a historic postseason slugger who's basically the same thing as peak Barry Bonds*.

*In a good way.