Right around this time last year, the Mets went on some kind of streak. It started out as seven in a row. It grew to 11 out of 14, and then to 19 out of 25. A week later, they started a new one: eight in a row, nine out of 10, 10 out of 12. It’s how you piece together a 31-11 record over a 42-game span in August and September.
It’s how, and why, everything that happened for them in 2015 happened at all.
This is what the Mets search for now: a streak, any kind of streak, any kind of message their pulse is still working and the final two months of 2016 will be something other than a long slog toward nowhere.