LOS ANGELES - Through the years, as he did whatever the Mets asked of him, there were times when all that Daniel Murphy wanted was to be noticed. On Thursday night, he wanted just the opposite.
"Don't see me. That's what I was thinking,'' Murphy said amid a torrent of champagne in the Mets' clubhouse after they clinched their National League Division Series against the Dodgers, 3-2, with Murphy the key factor in all three runs.
He was referring specifically to a heads-up play in the fourth inning. After leading off with a single, he calmly walked toward second base on a one-out walk to Lucas Duda, then took off like crazy to third with all of the Dodgers' infielders on the other side of second base because of the overshift against Duda.