When Wilmer Flores delivered his third career walk-off homer Sunday afternoon, allowing the brave denizens of arctic Citi Field to depart happily with a 3-2 Mets victory over the Brewers, baseball’s most surprising team proved another point:
Their success can’t be attributed solely to Mickey Magic.
In fact, just like the other 521 men who have managed a modern-era Major League Baseball game, Mickey Callaway will have days when his players bail him out.
A questionable sequence covering the bottom of the fifth and top of the sixth innings turned into mere postgame fodder as the scalding Mets added two franchise firsts to their résumé: Never before has a Mets team started a year 12-2, nor has one won its first five series.