If the Mets need any last-second pointers for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, they should place a call to Morningside Heights and the Columbia baseball program.
The Cubs’ starting pitcher, Kyle Hendricks, was hammered by the Lions in 2010 as a sophomore, charged with 12 earned runs and 12 hits over four forgettable innings in the opener of the Ivy League Championship Series, a 13-2 Columbia victory.
The Mets will send ace Jacob deGrom to the mound, a more formidable opponent — with all due respect — than Hendricks faced that spring day in Columbia’s Pat Lowery.