Twenty years later, the Mets have a new generation of flame-throwers, a stable of young pitchers keying a postseason run in Queens with their blistering velocity.
This was the plan in the mid 1990’s, when Jason Isringhausen, Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson — dubbed Generation K because of their swing-and-miss stuff — were supposed to be the kind of arms that could restore glory to the Queens franchise, create the kind of October memories Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom and Steven Matz hope to enjoy this month.
“You look back all those years ago,” Isringhausen said in a phone interview with The Post, getting nostalgic for a moment, “we had the expectations of being like these guys are today.