It seemed like the perfect distraction for the irrelevant ongoing season in Queens: A world-class pitching matchup between Jacob deGrom and Clayton Kershaw.
Except, it further illustrated just how far gone this year has become for the Mets.
For one night, they couldn’t even count on deGrom’s dominance, and the punchless offense failed to take advantage of a clearly rusty Kershaw going just three innings in his first start in nearly a month.