It is one of baseball’s fun little expressions, a dugout rallying cry that makes a breakthrough seem plausible, especially for a team like the Mets:
Bloop and a blast.
Any hitter can luck into a bloop single. Any slugger can drive a mistake to the seats. The Mets seem incapable of doing much offensively, but they do take big swings.
“We’re a bloop and a blast away, in the last 10 games, of winning every game,” Manager Terry Collins said before batting practice Sunday. “We have the kind of team that can do that.