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Mets have a Citi Field hornet's nest waiting for Phillies
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The Phillies will have to prove themselves pretty fearless to guarantee a return trip to the Bank. Pros don’t rattle easily but they do rattle.

If you simply look at the cold, bloodless numbers, then it would be impossible to say, definitively, that the Phillies will be walking into a hornet’s nest the next few days, stepping into a cooking cauldron of chaos.The Mets have played 11 postseason games at Citi Field since it opened in 2009. They are 5-6 in those games.

We have some of those stains on our white shirts, too, though none to speak of since another Game 3 of another best-of-five, 51 years ago, when some whiskey bottles and other scattered debris were aimed at Pete Rose after he pancaked Buddy Harrelson breaking up a double play, putting a 9-2 lead in forfeit peril. Mostly, since then, New York has learned to do it the right way: loudly and within the borders of good taste.

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