Whatever motivational tools Mickey Callaway chose to use – they worked.
After the Mets manager was told in a 90-minute meeting with team COO Jeff Wilpon and GM Brodie Van Wagenen to use anything her learned from last year’s free fall to jump start the club, his team responded with an eight-run first inning against the Marlins at Citi Field. It gave the Mets an 8-0 lead.
The Mets pounded out eight hits and brought 13 batters to the plate against Marlins starter Pablo Lopez, who has a 5.77 ERA. The frame was highlighted by a Amed Rosario grand slam and may have gone on longer had Jeff McNeil not been thrown out for the first out trying to go first to third on a J.