The Mets are coming off of a series win against the Wild Card leading Diamondbacks and a series split against the second Wild Card club, the Padres. In a vacuum, these should be bits of good news, but the way that two of the three Mets losses happened change this narrative. The Mets’ bullpen coughed up Sunday’s game against the Padres and Wednesday’s game against the Diamondbacks, with Edwin Díaz blowing both games and making the most reliable part of the Mets’ bullpen seem just as unstable as the rest.
Yesterday’s series win against the Diamondbacks, replete with Díaz save, helped put the wind back in the Mets’ sails a little bit, and this weekend has two bits of potential good news built in: the Braves, the third Wild Card team, are playing the first-place Phillies in a four game series and the Mets, the team looking in on the Wild Card podium, are playing the White Sox, one of the historically worst teams of not just the 21st century, but modern baseball.