The Dodgers beat the Mets four games to two to advance to the World Series. For the most part, the series featured an absence of pitching. The Mets batters produced a .361 OBP. That’s the sixteenth highest in an intraleague post-season series, with a minimum of 200 team plate appearances. A team that produced a season with a .361 OBP would likely rank as one of the great offenses of all time. The Dodgers, however, produced a .390 OBP, second only to the 2007 Red Sox who posted a .392 OBP against the Indians.

The bigger difference between the teams came after the batters reached base. The Dodgers hit .306/.373/.556 with runners in scoring position. They not only drove in runs, they kept the merry-go-round spinning. The Mets hit .193/.300/.333 in the same situation Note that the Mets averaged 4 1/3 runs per game despite being shutout twice.

Dodgers pitchers did limit power, as New York collected just 13 extra-base hits, only five for home runs. The Dodgers posted seven doubles and eleven home runs.

Mets pitchers were extremely bad at finding the strike zone. I don’t know how much of that was a strategy to pitch around the better Dodgers batters, and how much of it was just a high walk rate staff. I think it was a bit more of the former. They pitched to Tommy Edman (0 walks) and he crushed them.

It was not a stellar performance for the Dodgers staff, but they only bent, while the Mets staff broke.