The Mets are setting their watches all the way back to 2015, and by doing that they are trying to keep summer alive as long as possible.
In a few weeks, in one final dropkick to summer, we will turn our clocks back an hour, and darkness will descend upon our days earlier and earlier.
And once the roster was complete, it felt like a different hero — remember Kirk Nieuwenhuis? Remember Wilmer Flores? Remember Kelly Johnson? Remember Addison Reed? — fell out of the sky every day through September. That team may have made the playoffs with more ease than this one, but at the end they only won one more game than this one.
Naturally, he wiped out a 2-0 deficit with a two-run triple in the second, then scored the go-ahead run on a sac fly by Mark Vientos. Naturally, it would be Jose Iglesias who got the Mets back even at 4 because he refused to be beat to the first-base bag after old Mets friend Rhys Hoskins tried to rob him, diving in ahead of late-covering pitcher Joel Payamps.Jose Iglesias dives into first base to beat out an RBI infield single in the fifth inning of the Mets’ Game 1 win.
“I was really nervous,” Vientos said and if that’s so, it’s been hard to tell, since he’s emerged as the kind of high-energy in-season call-up that Michael Conforto was nine years ago.
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