Murphy goes from hero to goat with crucial error

Daniel Murphy’s error paved way for the Royals to score three runs in the eighth inning as the Mets lost Game 4 of the World Series, 5-3, falling in a three-games-to-one hole.

“I misplayed it,” Murphy said. “There’s no excuse for it. And we lost the ballgame because of it.”

With runners on first and second and one out, Murphy let Eric Hosmer’s grounder roll underneath his glove, a la Bill Buckner, and into the outfield, allowing Ben Zobrist to score the tying run.

“I didn’t do my job,” Murphy said. “That’s the most frustrating part.”

Mike Moustakas hit a sharp ground ball past the outstretched glove of Murphy into right field to drive in the go-ahead run and give the Royals a 4-3 lead.

“In [the] postseason, you can’t give away outs,” manager Terry Collins. “You’ve got to make outs. You can’t give good teams opportunities to score extra runs, because they can do it.”

Said captain David Wright: “That’s not the reason why we lost this game. That’s definitely not the reason why we lost this game.”

Murphy, who had homered in six straight games in the NLDS and NLCS, is now just 3-for-17 — all singles — in the World Series with five strikeouts.

“Murphy, he’s one of the best players we have here,” said Jeurys Familia, who allowed two inherited runs to score. “He plays hard. He’s one of the reasons we’re here. It happens.”

Matthew Cerrone
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The back-to-back walks prior to the error are more of a problem for me than Murphy’s mistake. Look, Murphy messed up. He knows it. In a situation like that, there is no excuse for not playing the ball in front of him and, at the very least, knocking it down, because the ball absolutely cannot get out of the infield. It was brutal. I think every Mets alive knew that when Murphy was on the incredible powers streak and single-handily carrying this team’s offense that, eventually, he would do something in the field or on the bases to give some of those runs back. I didn’t think he’d save it for Game 4 of the World Series, but he did. Thankfully, Murphy has shown he can shake this stuff off and refocus on the new day.

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