In a sport long-saturated with steroids and juiced-up behemoths that synthesized the record books, the Mets have returned the game to its ancestral order.
The Mets have put pitching in italics and added the axiom back to baseball.
Jim Kaat once said the best pitch in baseball is a good fastball. And the Mets have three or four hurlers who can tickle triple digits.
And that stack of blessed arms, along with some timely hitting and a surreal Daniel Murphy metamorphosis, catapulted the Mets past Chicago in the NLCS in a stunning four-game sweep. And just like their dismissal of the favored Cubs, their season was just as surprising.