WASHINGTON — There comes a point when talking yourself into the best-case scenario isn’t just a desperate ploy, isn’t just a cry for help, but the only alternative. What was it that Bob Dylan said? “When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.”
The Mets, they are nearing that point, in so many ways, and we aren’t even to July yet. Tuesday, for the second straight night, they lost to the Nationals, this time in a soggy 5-0 slog, and it wasn’t the losing that was as troubling as the presentation. Right now, these teams don’t look like they belong on the same field together.