Metstradamus - Most Valuable? Maybe Not, But Most Excellent

By metstradamus | September 10, 2020 1:00 am

I’m going to quote a friend of mine from tonight:

“If the Mets were actually good enough to make the playoffs, Conforto could be a darkhorse MVP candidate.”

And that was before this happened:

You gotta understand that this game was headed in the same direction as Monday’s disaster against the Phillies. Rick Porcello got torched for ten hits and five runs in four innings, and even the outs that were hit off him were hit really hard, so it could have been a lot worse. The Mets then started to crawl back from the 5-1 deficit that Porcello dealt them. Jeff McNeil hit his 4th home run in four games to bring it back to 5-3, but D.J. Stewart launched one to the Coke Corner off Chasen Shreve in the top of the 5th to make it 6-3, and seeing Chasen Shreve get touched up gave me the distinct feeling that this was over.

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