The New York Mets punched their ticket to the National League Championship Series for the first time since 2006 with a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday. Second baseman Daniel Murphy belted the go-ahead home run as the Mets won the decisive fifth game, advancing to face the Chicago Cubs in a best-of-seven series with the winner getting a berth in the 2015 World Series. The Mets allowed two runs in the first inning to erase a one-run lead but then held the Dodgers scoreless over the next eight innings in front of a crowd of 54,000 at Dodger Stadium.