{"id":181017,"date":"2025-07-16T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/181017\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:58:10","slug":"mets-had-the-dodgers-on-the-ropes-last-nlcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/181017\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets &#8216;had the Dodgers on the ropes&#8217; last NLCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Rodriguez is the only person who watched the NLCS last season and believed the New York Mets had the Los Angeles Dodgers right where they wanted them.<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday\u2019s MLB All-Star festivities, Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor joined Kevin Burkhardt, A-Rod, David Ortiz and Derek Jeter on the Fox pre-game show. And when it was Rodriguez\u2019s turn to ask a question, he began with praise for Lindor\u2019s 2024 postseason that went above and beyond.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NY <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Mets<\/a> SS Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindor12BC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Lindor12BC<\/a> joins our show and discusses what the Mets need to do to make a title run this season \ud83c\udf4e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HkICoqYoy5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HkICoqYoy5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1945263451506663536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, Franciscso, first of all, congrats on another All-Star appearance,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cYou guys had the Dodgers on the ropes last fall, and you were terrific personally. What has to happen in the second half of the season to bring a championship back to Queens, since 1986.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where A-Rod was right? Lindor was very good for the Mets during the 2024 MLB playoffs, including the NLCS. The Mets shortstop had a monster grand slam in Game 4 of the NLDS against the Phillies amid hitting \u00a0.275 with an OBP near .400 throughout the entire postseason, and enjoyed similar numbers in the NLCS.<\/p>\n<p>Where A-Rod was wrong? The Mets never had the Dodgers on the ropes last fall. They were blown out 9-0 in Game 1 to set the tone of the series. And they trailed 3-1 in the series before taking Game 5 in New York only to lose Game 6 in Los Angeles without much of a fight. To further prove the Dodgers were never on the ropes, they outscored the Mets 46-26 in the series. That\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Have a day, Alex! Fresh off claiming <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/mlb\/alex-rodriguez-credits-rob-manfred-for-saving-baseball-he-belongs-in-cooperstown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rob Manfred deserves to be in Cooperstown<\/a>, Rodriguez went and attempted to say the Mets \u201chad the Dodgers on the ropes\u201d despite being outscored 46-26!<\/p>\n<p>What was A-Rod watching? Fox had the 2024 NLCS, so Rodriguez saw the games live. Maybe he misremembered, or maybe he was just trying to be nice. But claiming the Mets had the Dodgers on the ropes in the NLCS was a gross misrepresentation of how that series played out.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Rodriguez is the only person who watched the NLCS last season and believed the New York Mets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[33482,17131,1691,5,227,57,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-181017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-2024-nlcs","9":"tag-2025-mlb-all-star-game","10":"tag-alex-rodriguez","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-francisco-lindor","13":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","14":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","15":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-mlb-playoffs","18":"tag-mlb-postseason","19":"tag-new-york-mets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114863977596680137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}