Well, that was certainly a buzzkill.
It felt like the Mets were playing with house money, Tommy Milone on the bump, two games already in their pockets in this series with the struggling, scuffling Giants. And Milone pitched well, and the Mets hit just enough, and there Jeurys Familia was, one out and nobody on in the ninth (after dismissing Conor Gillaspie and the Ghost of October Last), up 3-2 …
And, well, things didn’t go so well from there. The Giants rallied for four runs, the Mets rallied for two, and the game died as Kevin Plawecki’s weak grounder did, about 4 feet in front of home plate, with the tying run on second and the thin remnants of 31,066 hoping for extras.