If you saw the news of Francisco Lindor’s injury and Jacob deGrom’s lingering soreness and thought to yourself “how could this day possibly get worse?”, I have news for you! Despite leading the no good, very bad Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0 going into the bottom of the eighth inning, the Mets somehow managed to lose Saturday night’s game 9-7 at the conclusion of the ninth.
It’s easy to forget that before the horrors of the final two innings of baseball descended upon the club we call the New York Mets, things weren’t half bad. To that point, I suppose the best place to start is, well, the start.