The news around baseball before the game started stood as a sobering reminder that baseball is attempting to play during a pandemic that is still hitting many states hard around the country. While Rob Manfred seems to think that baseball will continue, the season feels like it is teetering over a precipice, and no amount of precautions can pull it back.
It is with that backdrop the Mets took the field at 7:30 in Fenway Park, with empty stands and trying their best to put the day’s unsettling news behind them. They also had to forget about the previous night’s 14-1 loss to the Braves, the last game in a series where the offense sputtered.