How long can they keep this up?

Morning Dose: Thursday, April 24

☀️ Good Morning:

This will end.

It’s not going to last forever.

The rotation isn’t going to pitch an entire run better than the next closest team in the National League. Some of those flawless arms in the bullpen will eventually give up more runs.

The Mets aren’t going to win 92% of their games at home.

They probably won’t win a record 117 games, as they are currently on pace.

This is the best of times.

Yeah, I sound like a Long Island mom talking to their finance bro son about the perils of city love. This is Mets Fix, we prefer to sell you prescription meds over something laced with hope on the street.

But the longer this run continues before it ends, the better positioned the Mets will be to weather a regression. They say divisions aren’t won in April, but they can certainly set you up for a stress-free summer.

Look at the Yankees last year. They carried a hot start into early June, building a 45–19 record. They finished the season 49–49, playing .500 baseball for the majority of their schedule. They secured the top seed in the American League with 94 wins and advanced to the World Series.

If the Mets simply play .500 for the next five+ months, they would end with 86 wins, right where most people projected them to finish, and in line for a wild-card berth.

Nobody wants that. The point is to have an amazing summer with more dominant pitching, thrilling victories and packed houses at Citi Field. But it puts this incredible start in perspective.

At some point, the Mets will come down from cloud nine. But they have been flying so high, that even a significant regression will keep them right in the playoff hunt.

☕️ Grab your coffee for your morning dose of Mets Fix!

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Mets fans have found a fun new hobby of peeking into the Phillies’ postgame show. All of the terrible feelings they have been conditioned to have as fans of the blue & orange are now being articulated by the not-so-fightin’ Phils.

The Mets own their I-95 rivals.

They have won eight of their past nine games against Philadelphia at Citi Field, including the playoffs. They are 20–6 against them in Queens since 2022.

The team most likely to compete with them for NL East supremacy can’t figure out how to beat them.

⚾️ Taking a broader view, their 10th inning victory to sweep the Phillies gave them a perfect 7–0 homestand, which is only the second time they have gone undefeated in a homestand of at least seven games in franchise history. They improved to 12–1 at Citi this season.

There is a real cosmic energy between this team and the fanbase right now. On a Wednesday afternoon in April, Citi Field was packed like it was Saturday night. What a concept: a sports team rewarding the faith and commitment of its most ardent followers.

The Amazins completed a span of 13 straight games without an off day with a brush-off-their-shoulder 10–3 record.