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Murphy brings fond memories into Citi return
- Updated: May 17, 2016
NEW YORK — Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy once called Citi Field home. For most of his seven years in the Big Apple, he was the Mets’ everyday second baseman.
But when Murphy arrived at Citi Field on Tuesday afternoon, he found it strange going into the visitors’ clubhouse. He had only been in there once, and that was a couple of years ago for a fantasy football draft held by Mets third baseman David Wright.
He quickly made his presence felt Tuesday night, when he made a nice defensive play to help save a run and end the first inning. In the second, he received a nice ovation from the Citi Field crowd before his first at-bat, during which he popped out to third.
Murphy has a lot of good memories in Flushing, including his remarkable contributions that helped the Mets go to the World Series in 2015. In the first two rounds of the postseason, Murphy went 16-for-38 (.421) with seven home runs and 11 RBIs — hitting a home run in six consecutive games, a postseason record. Four of those homers came in the National League Championship Series against the Cubs, leading Murphy to earn Most Valuable Player honors for that series.
Murphy called the experience fun. However, he wished he cracked a couple of homers in the …
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