The place had been electric, so full of life, so full of energy, so full of hope … and then it wasn’t. Then the Dodgers were parading around the bases, and Matt Harvey looked like a busted-out ham-and-egger, and the 44,276 people inside Citi Field were as quiet as an Easter Vigil Mass.
It was 3-0, Dodgers. The bad guys had walked in and thrown a stink bomb on this Mets party nine years in the making.
Then a funny thing happened. Actually, it wasn’t so much funny as it was stunning, because Yoenis Cespedes led off the bottom of the second inning by rolling a ball right into the Dodgers’ shift, three men to the left of second base.