On the 56th anniversary of the Beatles’ famous concert at Shea Stadium, it was the Mets who needed help.
They needed somebody to help them figure out Max Scherzer, the Dodgers’ (72-46) recent acquisition who stifled the Mets (59-58) en route to a 14-4 Los Angeles victory. Scherzer shoved for six innings and Max Muncy clobbered two nearly identical home runs. The Mets couldn’t stop the Dodgers’ offensive parade, beginning their NL West gauntlet run by getting swept at home.
There was something in the way they moved from the very beginning, when Mets’ starter Carlos Carrasco gave up six earned runs in his two innings of work, starting with three in the first.