They say nothing is handed to you in this game … and, well, the Minnesota Twins were nice enough to spend the entirety of the fifth inning disproving this theory. They entered with a 1-0 lead and their pitcher, Jake Odoizzi, throwing a no-hitter.
They left it down 6-1, a parade of pitchers all but ushering a procession of Mets around the bases and doing so generously, without ever requiring the Mets the inconvenience of actually swing their bats. It was baseball as a Jackson Pollock painting — so hard on the eyes that it looked like Wes Johnson, the Twins pitching coach, wanted to punch a wall with his teeth by inning’s end.