By metstradamus | June 6, 2021 10:13 pm
You younger fans might not fully appreciate the enormity of this weekend.
The Mets played four games in San Diego, and didn’t completely tear our hearts out and show them to us. They were competitive in games started by Yu Darvish and Blake Snell, and they won games started by Jacob deGrom and, today, Marcus Stroman. This Mets team continues to defy the norm and move the needle on their expected norms.
This is the first year in a while where going into San Diego was not only baseball’s version of Fear Factor, but the Padres are actually really, really good. And the Mets, still missing their starting right fielder, starting second baseman, starting third baseman, about five starting center fielders, and Victor Zambrano, split this series in San Diego. Oh and by the way, they’re 3 and 1/2 games in first place while incredibly being the only team in the N.L. East with a positive run differential. (I know I’ve said in the past that run differential meant nothing, but that was when you guys were trying to convince me that a 65-74 team was actually good because they had a run differential of +3 because Jason Bay had one really good game in Detroit.)
The Mets scored their first run when Jurickson Profar butchered a fly ball in the third, and that run was driving home by Billy “Kevin Maas” McKinney to make it 1-0. And somehow all I could think of was “If the Padres hadn’t traded Manny Margot, this would never have happened.” (Now go find an algorhythm to tell me why that’s false.) Dom Smith, whose check swing in the second got Jayce Tingler run, made it 2-0 in the 4th with a solo dinger.
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