An Amazin’ Month for the Mets

Wendell Cruz/USA Today Sports, via Reuters

A month ago, the Mets weren’t exactly at rock bottom, but they weren’t far-off.

The manager had cursed out a reporter. The general manager, according to multiple news media accounts, had thrown a chair in a meeting.

At the All-Star break, the Mets had lost 10 of their last 14 games, were seven games out of the last wild card spot and had the second-worst record in the National League at 40-50. It seemed pretty likely the Mets players were going to be playing golf and hunting come Oct. 1.

But on Monday morning the Mets woke up one game out of the playoffs after a torrid month that few could have predicted. At the All-Star break, if you still believed in…