It could have been a season-defining series — and may wind up being that, though not in the way the Mets had hoped.
When the Mets bled out their season here last year, the teams seemed laughably disparate, and the Braves bullied the Mets right out of first place. The Mets weren’t just competitive this series, they landed a few uppercuts. Shutterstock
And lost all three times. Before Tuesday, the Mets had played 9,699 games in their history. They had never before lost three straight games when leading by three runs or more. This is the part of a June baseball column where we are required by law to offer disclaimers. There are still 99 games to play. The Mets are still only 3 ½ games out of the wild card. They are still only 8 ½ games behind the Braves. Last year on the morning of June 9 the Mets were seven up on the Braves.
They are, in fact, a fourth-place team closer in the NL East standings to Washington than Atlanta. Baseball looks very hard for them right now. They are a team bursting with laments. They wait to hear the official diagnosis of their best player, Pete Alonso, who missed the game. Jeff McNeil, last year’s MLB batting champ, has somehow managed exactly one extra-base hit in his last 34 games. The co-aces have just been filleted by the very team they were expressly hired to beat.
On and on, stuck in the quicksand, every day a new study in how to kick away baseball games. And summer doesn’t even start for 12 more days.
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