NEW YORK -- The New York Mets are one win from yet another OMG moment. The outlook for the Philadelphia Phillies is a little more somber. The Mets will look to continue their stirring playoff run while the Phillies will attempt to stave off elimination Wednesday afternoon in Game 4 of a National League Division Series.
Jose Quintana is slated to start for the Mets against fellow left-hander Ranger Suarez. The Mets took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series Tuesday, when Sean Manaea tossed seven-plus strong innings and Pete Alonso and Jesse Winker each homered in a 7-2 win. No current member of the Mets was with the team in 2015, when New York made its most recent trip to the NL Championship Series and won the pennant before falling to the Kansas City Royals in the World Series.
"We're looking to finish this and be done, they're looking to try and extend the series and get back to Philadelphia," Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo said. "So it's a battle of wills (Wednesday) and we'll see what happens." The Phillies are trying to avoid being upset by the NL's sixth seed for the second straight season.
Philadelphia reached the World Series in 2022 but lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a seven-game NL Championship Series last October. "As a group, this is the closest to death as we're ever going to get," Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos said. "So in a way, we should feel the most alive.
We're only promised tomorrow and this is what we've worked since spring training for, to have.