As Mets-Dodgers begins, Daniel Murphy remembers infamous and electric 2015 series

You know who is excited about the Mets facing o💞ff with the Dodgers in the postseason?

The hero the last time the Meꦍts faced off with the Dodgers in th🐷e postseason.

“A seven-game set this time,” Daniel M♏urphy said🐬 by phone from his home in Jacksonville, Fla.

Murphy was a seventh-year Mets infielder playing in his first postseason nine years ago, a five-game set against the favored Dodger💯s that required all five g🦹ames.

The series began Murphy’s improbable rise to stardom and helped the club launch an improbable October run 💝that ende🌳d against the Royals in the World Series.

In the NLDS cage match, Murphy blasted three home runs, Jacob deGrom pitched 13 innings of two-run ball and Noah Syndergaard came back on short rest to pitch a scoreless inning of⭕ relief in Game 5.

But to many Mets fans, it will be remembered as the Chase Utley series, the nemesis turning a breakup slide in Game 2 into a broken leg for sh🍎ortstop Ruben Tejada.

The complex⭕ion of thꦚe series changed, and not just because Wilmer Flores moved to shortstop.

The venom hurled at Utley for Game🐷s 3 and 4 at Citi Fie🐓ld is storied.

“Chase was greeted by our fans exactly how he should have been greeted,” saꦚid Murphy, who partly blamed himself for his feed to Tejada on the double play. “I know Chase … I like Chase. But Chase plays on the edge, and in October, the edge is even sharper. Chase went in there thinking: I’m going to make sure my teammate gets another turn at-bat … almost by any means necessary.”

It worked, but he also shattered Tejada’s leg and etcꦦhed his name into all-time Mets villainy.

The series, bad blood and all, went th✱e distance because the Mets cou💙ld only manage one run (a Murphy homer) against Clayton Kershaw in Game 4. Game 5 in Los Angeles became the Murphy Game.

“It’s high up in there,” Murphy said✅ of where it ranks among his favorite all-time.

Murphy’s double drove in Curtis Granderson in the first before the Dodgersღ scored twice ༒against deGrom in the bottom of the inning.

The Mets tied the game in💜 the fourth in the most stunning fashion possible: Murphy’s baserunning. He singled before lefty-hitting slugger Lucas Duda — against whom the Dodgers had shifted their infield — drew a walk. Murphy made his way to second base and “made sure I put my invisibility cloak on,” he said.

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As a sophomore at Jacksonville University, he remembers being an infielder who was victimized by a runner takingไ an extr☂a base on a walk because the infield was not paying attention.

“I thought two things almost at the same time,” Murphy said of his collegiate moment. “I never want to let t🍃hat happen to me again. And that ﷽was about the coolest thing I’ve seen.”

He could feel the eyes of Justin Turner as he passed him and did not think the Dodgers noticed anything꧂ awry. He went by 🌟Howie Kendrick and felt as if he were still under the radar.

“As I get to second base, I give a peek because [Zack] Greinke🌼 pays a lot of attention — like, a lot of attention,” Murphy said. “And there would be no better way to describe my Mets career than to have him waiting for me at third base as I try to do some foolhardy baserunning play.”

Greinke was not concerne🐼d. There was 🦂one final barrier.

“And then I make eye contact with Corey Seager,” Murphy said, “and he realizes a🌳bout a tick after that I’m about to do something crazy.”

Murphy took off fo🌃r third base, where no Dodger was, and slid in safely.

After a Travis d’Arnaud sacrifice fly, the g♚ame was tied until Murphy took another at-bat.

In the sixth, Mu🐬rphy faced off one more time against Greinke in a fight that became a chess match.

G🌠reinke switched from a full windup to delivering out of the stretch𝔍 for a 3-1 changeup that Murphy hooked foul, a split-second ahead because the cadence of the at-bat had changed.

The full-count fastꦯball Greinke left over the plat♔e.

“I was trying to pull the sucker,” Murphy said. “ꦫI was trying to take a shortcut the whole at-bat.”

“Beat him to the ⛄spot,” Murphy said of the go-ahead homer, “wrapped it around the pole.”

The Mets would escape Los Angeles with a series victory to jump-start a long and fun run through Octo🍃ber.

Nine years later, Murphy is excited to see if th🌞is year’s Mets can go one step further.