What you see here is my scorekeeping from Sunday’s Mets-Rockies game…

…before I succumbed to the heat and packed up the ol’ scorecard for the day.

The Mets couldn’t keep up with the Rockies’ hot bats on Sunday either.

So instead of carrying their winning streak into the All Star break, the Mets head to the break coming off a loss.

But those have been few and far between the past six weeks, and the Mets are in about as good shape as you could have hoped by mid-July.

The Mets are three games over .500 and in sole possession of the third wild card spot in the National League.

At the beginning of June that seemed like wishful thinking for the All Star break.

But right before the Mets made their trip to London, it became clear that there was a path to success: they had not yet played a lot of games against teams with losing records…and they had a bunch of those games leading up to the All Star break.

I’m not sure if I’m going to continue to track this after the break (but I probably will, because it’s what I like doing), but here’s where some of these numbers stand:

First of all, after the 4-4 split in Washington and Pittsburgh you may remember I told you 9-5 would mean they had a pretty good homestand. That’s exactly what they did against the Nationals and Rockies.

That means the Mets enter the break:

9-5 in July
18-9 against sub-.500 teams since June 3 (and 7-2 against teams .500 or better)
Overall they are 25-11 since that date.

June 3 is significant because June 2 is when the Mets were 11 games below .500 for the last time.

So 14 games over .500 since that time has them back to 3 games over - 49-46. They are in the third wild card spot, just a half game behind the Cardinals, and 4 games behind Atlanta. They are a game ahead of Arizona and San Diego.

It is hard to believe that this stretch has gone as well as it has. I’m just so grateful that the season is not over at this point.

There’s a lot to look forward to - we’ll see what shapes up for the trade deadline. We’ll see if the Mets can keep up this pace with an increased volume of games against teams with winning records - including Atlanta, who they should have their sights set on to gain better wild card position. And the Mets have played 52 home games to this point versus 43 road games, so plenty more challenges are on the way.

For now, we’ll enjoy where they are, hopefully watch Pete Alonso put on a show in the Home Run Derby…and appreciate how far the team has come.

Let’s Go Mets.