The Los Angeles Dodgers arrive at Citi Field on Friday to start the second half of the baseball season. The visit is the first test in a crucial 15-game run for the Mets that will take the team to the Aug. 1 trading deadline — and determine its future.
The season began with sky-high expectations, but what now? Can the Mets make up enough ground to get the green light from the team’s owner, Steven A. Cohen, to make a push for the playoffs? Or will the choices be all white flags and explanations?
“It’s on us if we want to keep this thing afloat,” Max Scherzer, the veteran right-handed starting pitcher, said in San Diego before the Mets scattered for the All-Star break.