The Mets absolutely, positively, undoubtedly, needed to win this game in order to keep playoff hopes alive that, in all honestly, probably were not going to come true to begin with.
So naturally, they lost, and lost rather convincingly, despite the 8-5 final.
Michael Wacha took the bump for the Mets tonight, and started well, putting up a zero in the first. The Mets gracefully matched the Rays zero with one of their own, as Tyler Glasnow stranded Brandon Nimmo and Jeff McNeil to keep the Mets from striking early.