Back in June, we saw it. It was real. Now they’re scuffling.
The mojo was real. It was. If you were inside the ballpark during those halcyon days of June and early July, you know it was. You heard — and saw — Citi Field sound — and look — like it had on precious few days since October of 2015, when it seemed like the whole month was an endless carnival of joy hard by Flushing Bay.
And the next night … well. The next night. Kodai Senga was back, and he was electric, and the Mets threw a 7-spot at Charlie Morton in one inning, and Grimace was dancing and the crowd couldn’t wait to sing “OMG” and there was sheer delirium as the Mets were poised to slip past the Braves into the first wild-card slot. Mojo? This was something beyond mojo … And look, there’s no need to over-dramatize this: the Mets have won a few games since then.
And confidence becomes muted when it’s clear the team you now have to focus on is the Braves, a team that has had the Mets’ number from April 4, 1993, the day the Braves and Mets officially began to share the NL East. The Mets have 44 games left, to be precise, and all 44 of them are going to be meaningful, none more so than the nine they have in the next nine days at home with Oakland, Miami and Baltimore. And this isn’t July anymore, where you can say it’s fine to just keep winning series.
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