Good baseball teams struggle sometimes. It will happen in a season that is long as a normal baseball season is, and good teams break out of it. The Mets, who are good, just needed a .500 ballclub to set themselves right after a tough stretch.
The close-to-.500 New York Yankees proved to be the perfect get right team for the Mets,
Let us rewind to the beginning of the game, because this was way more interesting and close than the 10-5 final score dictates.
The Mets offense started with a bang...kind of.