Entering play on the second-to-last day in May, the Mets were 22-33 and had just been swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in a tumultuous three days at Citi Field. Three months later, the team improved to 10 games over .500 for the first time this year and continued to push for a postseason berth.
“What a story, right?” first-year manager Carlos Mendoza said after Monday’s 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox improved his team to 52-31 (.627) in the past 94 calendar days.
“Proud of the guys, it’s been a lot of ups and downs, but we never quit, we never gave up, we always continued to believe,” Mendoza said.