The solely individuals who need the Mets to take an off day are the gamers across the league which are in all probability uninterested in shedding to them.
After undressing the Cincinnati Reds 10-2 on Wednesday, the Mets have Thursday off, placing some scheduled brakes on the runaway prepare out of Willets Point.
No one ought to get too excessive on beating the Reds, after all, even when the win completes a collection sweep. What the Mets can be ok with is their general file (73-39), an unassailable signal of superiority. Within that glowing file, they’ve gained six in a row, 19 of their final 24 and have now swept 5 collection this yr.
The street to victory on Wednesday was paved within the first three innings. The Mets held a 6-0 lead a 3rd of the best way into the sport, making issues robust on Reds’ starter T.J. Zeuch, who was in Triple-A yesterday. Pete Alonso doinked somewhat single up the center to place the Mets forward simply three batters in, and Jeff McNeil added a sac fly later in that inning to make it 2-0.
Francisco Lindor etched his identify within the historical past books together with his single within the third, tying Jose Reyes’ single-season franchise file for many RBI by a shortstop (81). Daniel Vogelbach stored that two-out rally alive with a single to place the Mets up by 5, and within the subsequent inning, one of many different new guys added some fireworks to the present.
Tyler Naquin greeted Zeuch within the backside of the third by utterly smoking a 439-foot dwelling run. Down and inside, sometimes a left-handed hitter’s energy zone, Zeuch’s cutter got here in at 88 miles per hour and left at 107. Naquin now has 11 hits since enjoying his first sport for the Mets on July 30. With the house run and a double on Wednesday, seven of these have gone for additional bases. The pixie mud will in all probability dry up in some unspecified time in the future, however proper now, the Vogelbach and Naquin additions have been every thing the Mets might have requested for.
In the midst of a really carefree summer time, the Mets have been additionally capable of have some enjoyable on Wednesday. The climate lastly cooled down, and because the temperature stayed out of the 90s for what felt like the primary time in weeks, the Mets had a celebration. The group held its first ever Women’s Day at Citi Field. Players and coaches wore particular commemorative shirts earlier than the sport, and the membership hosted a particular panel that includes the feminine members of the entrance workplace.
On the sector, the largest distinction was that every member of the lineup had a walkup track by a girl. Mark Canha walked to the plate with Alanis Morrisette’s “You Oughta Know” coursing by the audio system. Luis Guillorme and Brandon Nimmo have been revealed to be Lizzo and Shania Twain followers, respectively. Vogelbach, all the time the self-deprecating lad, strode to the batter’s field with Kelis singing about her milkshake bringing all of the boys to the yard. Even the famously fiery McNeil performed alongside, selecting Hilary Duff’s “What Dreams are Made Of,” a siren track for girlies on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z.
Now that Cincinnati is firmly within the rearview, issues are going to get somewhat extra onerous for the red-hot Mets. Each of their subsequent 13 video games are in opposition to the Phillies, Braves and Yankees, all groups who’re properly above .500. The great thing about their state of affairs is, even when they emerge from that stretch with a shedding file, the Mets might be greater than okay.
The offense has scored 5 or extra runs in 9 straight video games, typically doing so with out counting on the house run ball. The beginning pitching has been wonderful — Taijuan Walker stored that happening Wednesday, going six sturdy with 5 strikeouts and solely two earned runs — and the person on the head of the dugout retains the ship headed in the fitting route.
Each win throughout the second half of the season has felt very ho-hum, an execution of what the group ought to do, somewhat than what it needs to. If they proceed doing this by the Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Subway collection, it’d simply be time to declare the Mets because the scariest group within the league.
That, to cite the enduring soundtrack from The Lizzie McGuire Movie, is what goals are manufactured from.
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