The Mets hadn’t been on the West Coast since the middle of June, and for the most part, it seemed like they enjoyed their time by the Bay playing the Athletics. With the Braves still hot on New York’s tail, nabbing all three games from a last-place Oakland team was the preferred result.
New York took two out of three, and all games ended up being blowouts. The Mets had lengthened their NL East lead after a Game 1 win, but then it immediately shrunk again following a loss in Game 2.
Atlanta came back to beat the Phillies on Sunday, so it was huge that the Amazins won the finale to keep their divisional lead at 1.