Before the Mets reached their first World Series in 15 years, before they swept the Cubs in the NLCS and Daniel Murphy became a postseason legend, Murphy made a toss to Ruben Tejada on Howie Kendrick’s soft liner up the middle behind second base in Game 2 of the NLDS in Los Angeles.
Tejada, with his back to first, took Murphy’s toss and then was blindsided by Chase Utley.
The play left Tejada with a broken right leg and put Wilmer Flores back into the spotlight again.
“You never want anyone to get hurt, especially Ruben, but it happened and then you think, ‘Well, this is your chance now to go show you can do it,’ ” Flores said.