The Mets are actually within the midst of consecutive weekends wherein they’ll play the Cubs, Yankees and Dodgers.
And if this can be a nine-game litmus take a look at in opposition to fellow major-market powers that can take the Mets to Memorial Day — the standard opening of the pennant race — then it hardly may have gone higher. The Cubs arrived at Citi Area on Friday very like the host, having used the early season to seize a division lead and flex that they may very well be greater than that.
Then the Mets outplayed them in each manner you could possibly, starting with baseball’s model of the irresistible pressure assembly an unmovable object. The Cubs have been main the majors in runs per sport, the Mets in ERA.
It wasn’t shut.
