It is easy to label certain games throughout the season as “turning points.” In hindsight most of those turning points turn out to be nothing. But if the Mets win this season, they might want to look at Tuesday’s comeback against the Phillies as the turning point of the season.
The Mets came into the game down on their luck; losers of five of their previous seven games, the sweep by the Pirates, in which the Mets could barely muscle the ball out of the infield, fresh in their minds.