The Mets have higher ambitions than merely qualifying for the tournament.
There are still the Braves, unwilling to allow the Mets to breathe, and there are those three games in Atlanta that everyone believes will determine the NL East. Scherzer will pitch in that series, and assuming his next start — either in Oakland on Sunday or back home against Miami two days later — goes well, he will pitch against the Braves, in exactly the kind of game that lured him to erstwhile enemy territory, that moved Cohen to guarantee him $130 million.
It’s hard to imagine he can be better than he was Monday in Milwaukee. But a reasonable facsimile will be fine. On back-to-back days Jacob deGrom sandwiched 15 straight outs between Oneil Cruz blasts, and then Scherzer went 18-for-18 against a Brewers lineup that had feasted on the Yankees all weekend. Assuming those traveling Mets fans found themselves back in their hotel rooms too amped up to sleep, seeing the possibilities of deGrom and Scherzer two out of every five days ought to make the insomnia plenty bearable. The Mets and the Braves have circled each other like rival packs of wolves for three months now, and it’s hard to believe that both teams won’t be better for the intensity and the chase. The wild-card recipient will still be a dangerous out. But it’s first place that will command the real prize. You win the division, you avoid the Dodgers as long as possible. And if you draw the Dodgers? You say thank you for the berth in the NLCS. Then you take your chances against a team you beat four times in seven tries this year. Ah, but all of that is still ahead. Far ahead. For now, for Monday, there was champagne but it was distributed civilly, in glasses. There will be other opportunities to splash and spray and shower each other. Monday was the good times on full display. Pete Alonso hit a baseball halfway to Sheboygan. Scherzer was immaculate. The Mets punched their ticket to October and gave a horde of their fans a night to revel in a town that knows how to aid and abet jubilation. Step 1. As a wise man might put it: Put it in the books.
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