The NLCS moves to Citi Field for Game 3 Wednesday at 8:08 p.m. ET.
The Mets will look to gain control of the series after evening it up with a 7-3 win on Monday.
Despite two high-scoring games so far this series, sportsbooks set the total at 7.5 runs on Wednesday.
Luis Severino is slated to start for the Amazin’s and Walker Buehler gets the nod from the Dodgers.
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The sellout crowd was alive and electric for the Mets’ first National League Championship Series game at Citi Field in nearly a decade.
The Mets couldn’t quite reward the house electricity.
For once this October, they failed to match the moment.
This magical, masterful team that’s delivered several thrilling endings and rewritten many unhappy scripts (and game columns) couldn’t get it done for once.
In the first five innings, four Mets at-bats powered an estimated 1,460 feet of deep flies.
They added up to four outs.
The Mets were glad to have the fans at their back after a pair of games in Los Angeles, but they were less glad to have the wind at their face and the chilly, fall weather around them during a game in which many balls were hit hard, but only the Dodgers managed to clear the wall (three times).
The Mets were held inside the park during the 8-0, Game 3 loss that put them in another NLCS hole on a night the temperature fell into the mid-40s — and batted balls played like they did during the offensively challenging times in April.
Decent.
But decent isn’t good enough against these Dodgers.
Luis Severino kept the Mets in the game, but that didn’t result in a victory in Wednesday night’s NLCS Game 3 meeting between the Dodgers and Mets in Queens.
Two second-inning runs put the Mets behind and they never really recovered in a 8-0 loss at Citi Field that enabled the Dodgers to take a 2-1 lead in this best-of-seven series.
Carlos Mendoza didn’t hesitate. Didn’t even wait for the question to end.
When asked postgame about whether he’d consider sitting Francisco Alvarez for Game 4 of the NLCS and starting Luis Torrens, Mendoza said that Alvarez will be back in the Mets’ lineup on Thursday. Alvarez had a costly error in the second inning and struck out in all three of his at-bats.
From Party Citi to Panic Citi.
This is not what the Mets were envisioning with the NLCS shifting to Queens for Game 3 after a split in Los Angeles as the Amazin’s were shut out for the second time in the series Wednesday night in an 8-0 loss, giving the Dodgers a 2-1 series lead.
The Mets had won 14 of their previous 16 home games, including both Flushing affairs in the NLDS against the Phillies.
Shohei Ohtani’s three-run homer in the eighth off Tylor Megill put the game out of reach.
This time, the Mets didn’t have an answer to the Dodgers’ powerful home runs. They didn’t have an answer to their strong pitcher.
Instead, the Mets were blown out in Game 3 of the NLCS, in front of a sellout crowd at Citi Field, to fall behind 2-1 in the series. Luis Severino kept the Mets within striking distance, allowing two unearned runs before exiting, but the Dodgers then blew the game open with a pair of late-inning homers from Shohei Ohtani and Max Muncy.
With the Game 3 result all but determined, Max Muncy made sure there weren’t any lingering doubts.
Muncy launched a homer near the second deck of Citi Field to give the Dodgers an 8-0 lead to start the eighth inning. He'd already reached base in his previous four plate appearances with three walks and a single. Then, he capped the night with his third homer of the playoffs and the 13th postseason homer of his career.
Max Muncy piles it on pic.twitter.com/OUXMCbzlga
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Brandon Nimmo drew a one-out walk against Ben Casparius, but that's all the Mets could manage in the eighth inning against the Dodgers.
Mark Vientos and Starling Marte both struck out that inning for the Mets — the their 11th and 12th of Game 3.
