It wasn’t so long ago that the Mets were 13-4.
Then the Braves swept them. And the Rockies swept them.
And now, today.
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Game 126 // First Inning // The Orioles Are Dead
You’re 8-26 on the year.
You have lost all hope.
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Game 125 // Ninth Inning // The Walk-Off Umpire
Two days in a row, a game has ended with a walk-off replay review.
Same umpire, both days.
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Game 124 // Eighth Inning // The Kings of Queens
The Mets were on the edge of a giant cliff. The letters SWEEP written into the dirt of the plains below.
And then, this eighth inning.
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Game 123 // Eighth Inning // The Broken-Bat Home Run
The Nationals scored six in the eighth to make a comeback and—
Forget all that.
Did you see what Bryce Harper did in the third inning?
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Game 122 // Ninth Inning // The Mets Lead the National League
We need a resident Mets fan here.
After a win like this: are you letting yourself believe?
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Game 121 // Eighth Inning // The Cold, the Mist, the Time of Your Life
We may have just seen the wildest inning of 2018.
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Game 120 // Sixth Inning // Baseball Snow Day
It’s snowing, in April.
Whitecaps are swarming the surface of the Allegheny River.
A fleet of pirate ships are stuck in the ice. Clint Hurdle’s pegleg has frozen. His parrot has died. His eye patch whitens with frost.
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Game 119 // First Inning // “Big Fly, Ohtani-San!”
This league is in desperate need of a superstar.
A household name. A national name. From California to New York Island. From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters.
This land was made for Shohei Ohtani.
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