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Hard to top Walker’s first impression with Mets
- Updated: April 26, 2016
NEW YORK — Considering how fully Daniel Murphy has transformed last October’s Babe Ruth impression into a Ted Williams impersonation down in Washington, it would have been easy for Mets fans to spend April pining for their longtime second baseman. Under just about any other circumstances, that would be normal, rational behavior.
Instead, most of the 30,250 souls at Citi Field on Monday spent the middle innings of a 5-3 win over the Reds serenading Murphy’s replacement, Neil Walker. And for good reason: Walker apparently plans to make his year in Flushing count. His tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning not only put the Mets ahead for good, but gave him eight in 18 games — his most prodigious power output in any calendar month of his career.
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“I hope he keeps doing it,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “I hope he stays red-hot.”
Almost certainly, Walker will not stay quite this warm — a 72-homer season is not in his future. But signs do point to him remaining a cog in the middle of the …
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