The New York Mets—utterly relentless at the plate in the past two weeks—kept knocking on the door during Game 4 of the NLDS on Thursday, surprisingly to no avail.
Bases loaded in the first inning. No runs. Bases loaded in the second inning. No runs. Runners on first and second with no outs in the fifth. No runs.
So when Francisco Lindor stepped to the plate with one out in the bottom of the sixth, the bases loaded and the Mets trailing the Philadelphia Phillies 1-0, the question pinging around the minds of fans at Citi Field was whether this would be the moment the dam finally broke.