We’re tantalizingly close. The New York Mets open their 2019 campaign on Thursday, March 28 at 1:05 p.m. ET against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park.
Twenty-eighteen, the team’s first season under manager Mickey Callaway, was, to say the least, a roller coaster. After a franchise-best 11-1 start, the team played 66-84 baseball the rest of the way and was eliminated from the playoff chase in mid-September.
This is a franchise that made back-to-back trips to the postseason in 2015-16, but has now lost at least 85 games in each of the last two years.