It wasn’t a baseball game, it was a sucker punch.
The New York Mets sneaked up on the Dodgers in broad daylight Monday and knocked them flat, swiping the assuredness off their face and sending them tumbling into Queens.
Two games in, the National League Championship Series has now been transformed into something few thought it would ever be, something that should make Dodger fans knot those blue rags around their numbing fingers.
This series is now, well, a series.
The Mets created one by storming out of the dugout with bats flying and arms cooking, breaking open the Dodgers’ suddenly vaunted pitching staff, breaking down the powerful Dodger bats, overcoming their own fielding fumbles, generally bringing chaos to an overheated Chavez Ravine and stealing away a 7-3 victory in a Game 2 that tied the NLCS at one game apiece.