NEW YORK — New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz didn’t hesitate.
He didn’t try to couch his sentiments.
If the bravado becomes bulletin board material, so be it.
“We are,” Diaz flatly said after getting the final six outs Friday, “going to win the next two games.”
“We can beat them. We can do this.”
Maybe it wasn’t Joe Namath back in 1969 guaranteeing the Jets would win the Super Bowl, but in this day and age, where everyone tries to be closely guarded, it’s as close as it can come.
The Mets, who appeared left for dead when they took the field facing elimination, instead got up and pounded the Los Angeles Dodgers into submission, writing another chapter in this Cinderella season.
“It wouldn’t be us if we didn’t win this way,” Mets DH J.D. Martinez told USA TODAY Sports as he packed his suitcase. “We’ve been doing it like this all year. Why stop now?”
The Mets, shut out twice in this series, slammed the Dodgers, 12-6 , scoring the second-most runs in franchise postseason history in front of their sellout crowd of 43,841, believing they can pull off the stunning comeback.