Daniel Murphy homers again, proves that it's his world and we're all just living in it

Daniel Murphy has never hit more than 14 home runs in a season -- a mark he set this year in 499 at-bats. For his career, he's hit one every 58.4 times walking to the plate. Not a bad total, but not the type of hitter you'd expect to start cracking out home runs seemingly at will.

Of course, that was in the old world -- the old world with old rules that affected the Mets' second baseman. 

See, when Murphy homered in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Dodgers, we didn't think anything of it. After all, that's not strange. 

When he homered again in Game 4 as the Mets' only run, again, sure, again, not that strange. People hit two home runs in a series all the time. 

When he hit his third postseason home run in Game 5, supplying the difference in the Mets' 3-2 victory with his two RBIs, well, it was a story. But still, it was within the realm of sanity -- one player having an outrageous series to send his team to the next round. 

But that's when things started to get weird. And weird in the, "Hey Scully, you're going to want to fire up an autopsy" kind of way. Murphy, who shares his last name with the goat that supposedly cursed the Cubs, homered in Game 1 of the NLCS against the Cubs. 

Then he did the same in Game 2 -- off his third NL Cy Young candidate.  

And on Tuesday night, he homered again in the Mets' 5-2 win against the Cubs in Game 3.

That's six postseason home runs -- the most in a single postseason by a Mets player -- and also his fifth consecutive game with a home run in the playoffs, tying him with Carlos Beltran for the postseason record. 

Which can mean only one thing: A lightning bolt struck Daniel Murphy's house and it traveled into his brain and forever changed our world. For this isn't our reality anymore. This is Daniel Murphy's reality. And we had better get used to it.