ST. LOUIS — This was just how the Mets planned it, right?
On the wackiness scale, the idea of the Mets taking an important August series against the Cardinals by winning games that featured Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo — while Jacob deGrom was annihilated — might seem like the stuff of fiction.
But the Mets are still breathing in the race for the NL’s second wild card largely because of the unexpected.