Heroes And Zeroes: Mets 3, Marlins 1

The Mets stun the Marlins in an epic C-Wreck.

Heroes and Zeroes is a series of articles which focus on the players who had the most impact at the plate and on the mound. I used the Wins Probability Added (WPA) chart at www.fangraphs.com to help sort out the details.

Heroes

Daniel Murphy (NYM) .577

Murphy, batting fifth, started out by flying out to Adeiny Hechavarria to open the second inning (-2.3%). In the fourth, he hit into a 4-3 groundout for the second out of the inning (-1.9%), and did it again to open the seventh (-3.8%). Nothing yet to indicate his impending heroism. With one out and men on first and second in the top of the ninth, down 1-0, he knocked one over the fence for all of New…