It is as if Mortimer and Randolph Duke poked their heads into the major league baseball season and decided to have a little fun with everyone in Queens.
Forget the trade deadline coming up on Wednesday. Even forget the deal pulled off on Sunday for Toronto’s Marcus Stroman that could be part of a larger three-way transaction involving Noah Syndergaard.
The Mets had already traded places with … themselves?
“I think we’re starting to put it together, and for the most part we’ve been playing complete baseball,” Michael Conforto, whose second home run in two days ignited a six-run first inning in what became a more-nervous-than-necessary 8-7 victory over the Pirates on Sunday.