In the eighth inning of a tie game at Citi Field on Friday night, the crowd of 38,495 broke into an enthusiastic, whole-stadium version of the wave.
Round and round it went as Daniel Murphy batted with a man on first. A tense situation seemed instead like a walk in the park for those Mets fans, who probably assumed that their first-place club was going to find a way to beat the Pirates the way they did four times against the Rockies this week.
But the Pirates are not the Rockies. The Pirates are one of the best teams in baseball, and it was Pittsburgh that pulled out a 3-2, 10-inning win over the Mets.