Watch New York Mets Vs. Chicago Cubs Game 4 Live Online: Streaming Info, Pitchers As Mets Go For Sweep


The New York Mets faithful will want to watch live online as their beloved “Amazin’s” go for the first four-game sweep of a postseason series in the 53-year history of the franchise, facing the Chicago Cubs with a 3-0 lead in the National League Championship Series on Wednesday. The prize if they can pull it off? The first trip to the World Series for the Mets since the 2000 Subway Series when they lost in five games to the New York Yankees — and the fifth World Series berth since the Mets joined the NL as an expansion club in 1962.

The Mets have come a long way since that first season, played in New York’s old Polo Grounds ballpark, when the expansion team won just 40 games — the fewest wins of any team in Major League Baseball history — as they brought National League baseball back to New York five years after both the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants abandoned New York City and moved to the West Coast.

But the “Amazin’ Mets” won an unexpected World Series just eight years later, beating the Baltimore Orioles four games to one in 1969. Then in 1973 the Mets made it back to the World Series after sweeping the Cincinnati “Big Red Machine” in the NLCS — but in those days, each league championship series was played in a best-three-of-five format.

The Mets will try Wednesday not only for the first four-game sweep in their history, but the first sweep of a National League Championship Series since 2007, when the Colorado Rockies blew away the Arizona Diamondbacks in four straight.

The Chicago Cubs, on the other hand, have not appeared in a World Series since 1945 and have not won one since 1908 — a 107-year dry spell. But to break that drought, they’ll first need to accomplish a feat that only one other team in Major League history has done — come back from a 3-0 hole to win a best-of-seven series.

Of the 34 teams in the situation that the Cubs now find themselves, only the 2004 Boston Red Sox have managed to stage a complete comeback. In fact, the 2004 Red Sox were the only team to start down 3-0 and even take the series to a Game Seven, win or lose.

Of course, that team was assembled by General Manager Theo Epstein, the same Theo Epstein who put together the current Cubs roster as the team’s president of baseball operations.

To find out how to watch the New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs National League Championship Series Game Four live online, see the streaming link in the final paragraph of this article. Game time is set for 7:07 p.m. Central Time at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Wednesday, October 21 — 8:07 Eastern Time, 5:07 Pacific.

New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs Live Online Game 4 Jason Hammel
Jason Hammel of the Chicago Cubs (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

To keep their season alive, much speculation in the press centered around whether or not Manager Joe Maddon would bring back $155 million free agent signing Jon Lester on three days rest, after he threw 107 pitches in a losing Game One outing on Saturday.

But rather than bring Lester back on short rest, Maddon has announced that he’ll go with 33-year-old, 10-year journeyman Jason Hammel, pitching for the fifth team of his career. Hammel last pitched eight days ago, in Game Four of the NL Division Series agains the St. Louis Cardinals, lasting just three innings while allowing two runs, including a home run, on three hits and three walks.

But the Mets counter with another of their seemingly inexhaustible supply of high-quality young arms, going with Long Island native Steven Matz. The 24-year-old lefty started just six games in the regular season, but put together a 4-0 record and 2.27 ERA. Matz also last pitched on October 13, in his lone postseason start, taking the loss against the Los Angeles Dodgers, surrendering three runs in five innings.

New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs Live Online Game 4 Steven Matz
Steven Matz of the New York Mets (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

To watch Game Four of the New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs National League Championship Series live online and see if the Mets can sweep the Cubs out of the NLCS, advancing to the fifth World Series in the 53-year history of the franchise, or if Chicago can win just one game to extend their season to Thursday, go to the WatchTBS site at this link. Login credentials from a cable or satellite provider will be required to access the live stream. To watch the New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs NLCS Game Four on mobile devices, download the WatchTBS app.

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