You have to go back to May 7 to find the last time the Mets were a .500 team. For those inquiring minds, that’s 50 days, or just over seven weeks, ago. The Mets defeated the Cardinals 7-5 at Busch Stadium that day, with José Butto—remember him?—earning the victory. The sunset in New York was not yet 8:00pm (7:58pm, to be exact). NYC public school children still had a ways to go before summer vacation (which began earlier today).
With an 12-2 victory over the Yankees at Citi Field on Wednesday night, the Mets clawed their way back up to .