We wake up on Monday morning with the New York Mets in third place in the National League East, 2.5 games back of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Their slide has been brutal to watch. But the timing of when things have gone wrong for the Mets has been especially bad because others around them have found their stroke at the worst time possible (at least from the Mets’ perspective).
If we want to pinpoint a date when things started to go south for the Mets, circling July 7 on the calendar is a good date. That’s the last time Jacob deGrom made a start for the Mets.