The Mets aren’t dead yet, but that’s only because it’s too early in the season to make that sort of proclamation.
Let’s just say that they head into Citi Field for Friday’s game against the Reds on life support. Thanks to the growing mound mastery of Jacob deGrom, they avoided stretching a seven-game losing streak with a 2-0 win over the Brewers, who by the way sit just one win better than the Phillies, baseball’s most putrid outfit this year.
If their first two losses against the Brewers tagged Terry Collins’ group as a loser disguised as a second-place team, Thursday’s win did little to dispel that.