The 2016 season was a weird one for both the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants. Yeah, they made the playoffs and everything, but man, it was not easy for either crew.
The Mets enter the playoffs without 75% of their vaunted starting rotation from last October, yet here they are. The Giants stumbled to the postseason by playing some of the worst baseball of any team in the second half, yet here they are.
And now, these two flawed squads are playing a one-game, win-or-go-home ballgame for the right to likely get slaughtered in a five-game series against the Chicago Cubs.