For Met fatalists — and, heaven knows, this past decade of depression has created armies of them — first place and an eight-game winning streak never felt worse.
You’d have figured, after his disappointing Marlins team was swept in four games at Citi Field and, in the midst of it, his best player, Giancarlo Stanton, said it lacked fire, that nobody was feeling more miserable Sunday afternoon than Miami manager Mike Redmond, whose seat is getting hotter by the day. Tell it to Terry Collins who, in a matter of minutes, watched in disbelief as all those good feelings about a Met season holding so much promise evaporated with the crack of two bones — lefty reliever Jerry Blevins’ left forearm and Travis d’Arnaud’s right hand — as the dark cloud that has hovered over Citi Field since its inception made its unwelcome return in the seventh inning and made the manager even sicker than Matt Harvey.