The Baby Mets
Morning Dose: Thursday, May 14
☀️ Good Morning:
These Mets are fun?
On a night we were reminded of the very worst this team could offer, the fans who stuck it out until the end were rewarded with some of the best this club has up their sleeve.
Juan Soto hurt himself (although X-rays came back negative after fouling a ball off his foot). Mark Vientos made one of the craziest misplays I have ever seen. Carson Benge had some moments before he had the moment. And this all happened after we learned Francisco Álvarez will be sidelined for two months with a torn meniscus.
🍎 But the Mets won!
And they did so behind a rag-tag group of youngsters that is actually fun to root for.
May is looking better than April. While that’s a lot like saying a Jackson Pollock painting looks better than my 10-year-old’s art project, the Baby Mets are proving that exciting baseball, like abstract art, is in the eye of the beholder. You never know when a bunch of random lines and shapes turns out to be worth $370 million.
By taking the first two games against the Tigers, the Amazins have won three of their past four series, and seven out of 11. They still have a lot of climbing left to do, but inch by inch.
🗓️ UP NEXT: The Mets go for three straight (weather permitting) with Nolan McLean (1–2, 2.78) on the hill against right-hander Keider Montero (2–2, 3.18).
📰 ABOVE THE FOLD
DAILY DOUBLE
The Mets are undefeated in the Ewing Era (🤪), but it’s Carson Benge doing the heavy lifting at the plate. With another multi-hit performance, including his walk-off-heroics, Benge has hit safely in eight of his last nine games, batting .387 (12-31) with a 1.038 OPS over that span.
