Baseball-Dodgers stunned by the Mets 3-1 in series opener

LOS ANGELES, Oct 9 (The Sports Xchange) - Daniel Murphy homered and Jacob deGrom struck out a career-high 13, sparking the New York Mets to a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game One of their National League Division Series on Friday. DeGrom's 13 strikeouts tied Tom Seaver's franchise mark, which the Hall of Famer set in Game One of the 1973 National League Championship Series against the Cincinnati Reds. DeGrom retired the final 11 batters he faced. He and Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw, who struck out 11, became the first two opposing pitchers to strike out at least 10 hitters in a game. Mets closer Jeurys Familia worked a perfect 1-1/3 innings for the save in front of a sellout crowd of 54,428 at Dodger Stadium. With the win, the Mets took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series. Game Two is on Saturday, also at Dodger Stadium. Kershaw lost his fifth straight playoff game. Kershaw (0-1), who is 1-6 in the postseason, was charged with three runs on four hits with four walks in 6-2/3 innings. Kershaw also lost to the Mets for the first time in 10 career starts. Murphy gave the Mets an early lead, driving a 2-0 Kershaw fastball into the visitor's bullpen in right for a solo blast to open the fourth inning. With two outs in the seventh and the bases loaded, third baseman David Wright laced a two-run single up the middle off reliever Pedro Baez to make it 3-0. The Dodgers scored a run on first baseman Adrian Gonzalez's RBI single to left, scoring second baseman Howie Kendrick, who reached on a double, to slice the lead to two runs with two outs in the eighth. However, Familia induced third baseman Justin Turner to line out to first to limit the damage. Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis, who went 1-for-3, had a fourth-inning single to extend his postseason hitting streak to a franchise record-tying 11 games. Ellis tied left fielder Carl Crawford's mark, set in 2014. (Editing by Mark Lamport-Stokes)