PITTSBURGH — Has a team ever needed a laugher like these Mets did Friday night at PNC Park? Shoot, the Mets could register a month straight of laughers, and they probably still would show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder from everything this young season already has wrought.
Mets 8, Pirates 1 shouldn’t have raised your heart rate more than a few ticks, with Neil Walker celebrating his second Steel City homecoming by going deep twice while driving home four runs. In all, the Mets rid themselves of some of the stench from their prior two games — losses to the tanking Padres at Citi Field — by racking up 12 hits.