Send 44 batters to the plate and you would expect 10 strikeouts based on New York's regular season average. They instead struck out zero times. Jack Flaherty didn't have much and long man Brent Honeywell is not a bat-misser, so that contributed to the Mets not striking out, but credit to the hitters. They were relentless in a must-win game.

Edwin Diaz & Francisco Alvarez spoke on the New York Mets' Game 5 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers and the possibility of the Mets forcing a Game 7.

With a walk in the top of the fifth inning, Muncy reached base on his 11th consecutive plate appearance. This set the MLB record for consecutive postseason plate appearances reach