The New York Mets forced the National League Championship series back to SoCal with a 12-6 thumping of the Dodgers Friday night. As has been the norm in this series, the game was one-sided. None of the five games to date in this series has been closer than 4 runs and the average run differential for the games is 7 runs per game.

The only time a postseason series has had six games decided by four or more runs was the 1965 World Series between the Dodgers and Minnesota Twins, according to the Athletic, with an average margin of victory of seven runs.