Perhaps New York shouldn’t have replaced the Dodgers

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesIf you started your viewing experience of the Mets’ eventual 4-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers expecting any good things to happen, you saw those visions fade away before the first inning could even be put to rest.

That’s not to say that Rich Hill had a bad start, because he didn’t, if anything, he had a bad start to an alright start. Mr. Mountain went five innings, giving up three runs on six hits and striking out two. The real problem is not the sum of those stats, but rather when the lows of the game came for Hill.

After a first inning that saw the Mets’ 2-4 hitters strand Brandon Nimmo after a leadoff double against a familiar heterochromic face in…