Ask yourself a question: how many games have the Mets played this year which have not stressed you out? Sure, it’s a long season and every team will experience some difficult games that elevate the heart rate a bit. The Mets, however, have seemed physically incapable of having boring, simple games this season. Good or bad, win or lose, the Mets rarely experience nine innings in which we poor fans can simply relax and not want to pull each individual strand of hair on our body out one by one.
That’s probably why the series finale against the Reds felt so refreshing and abnormal.