Mets’ Home Run Barrage Can’t Overcome Wheeler’s Poor Pitching

LOS ANGELES — What if, you Mets fan probably reading this early Tuesday in New York, woke up to learn that your favorite team hit four home runs against Clayton Kershaw, baseball’s best starting pitcher, late the night before in Los Angeles? What if it managed six runs against Kershaw, the first time he had allowed that many in a start in two years?

You would figure that a Mets win was, at the very least, quite possible.

But in a season of oddities, inconsistencies and maladies, it was only fitting that the Mets lost, 10-6, to the Los Angeles Dodgers (45-26) despite four combined home runs from Jose Reyes, Jay Bruce and Gavin Cecchini against Kershaw, the most he has allowed in a start in his…