Well, the Sunday ticket-holders got another exciting ending, with the Mets scoring three in the 9th inning on Sunday to beat the Giants, 4-3.

Which I’m starting to chalk up to luck a little more than any skill.

If you play enough close games, you’re going to luck into winning a couple of them, I suppose.

I am just at the point where I have very little patience with this team.

Maybe Sunday will launch them on a 15-game winning streak and I’ll change my tone…but it feels more likely they’ll embark on another losing streak before salvaging a series finale or two along the way.

Here’s something - until this weekend, after all the games I have been to over the past couple of years, I had not gone with just me and my wife.

We kind of decided on short-ish notice that we would drive down for Saturday’s game, since it was a sandwich day of the holiday weekend.

We were right - there was no traffic heading back Saturday evening.

But that’s partly also because we got a nice early start.

We left after 7 innings…my reasoning being, after Brett Baty’s go-ahead homer, we had seen anything good that was going to happen, and based on how they had been playing, it was pretty likely we’d leave disappointed if we stuck around longer.

I’d rather listen to a win on the car radio and get a head start than to suffer through a painful loss and then sit in ballpark traffic.

You know it ended up being the right call.

I think putting Edwin Diaz in the game in a close save situation, after a successful effort on Saturday, was a mistake. I think it was the first - and certainly biggest - missed move by Carlos Mendoza this season.

Most of the times the players have failed him…I think this time he failed Diaz.

But, man, did my wife have a nice day at Citi Field.

I love it there.

I just wish the product on the field would consistently match the quality of the ballpark.

I’m close to only writing here about the Citi Field experience - I have lots of good things to report there.

For now all I’ll say is I’m glad I got to see a City Connect game on Saturday. It’s not just the uniforms, which I like.

They also do a lot of graphics on the scoreboards that are City Connect-themed or subway-related.

It’s all very cool - that image at the top of the post is a still shot from one of the scoreboard animations. And unfortunately that’s about the most exciting thing the Mets have going right now.

The Series Against San Francisco: 1-2

Overall Record: 22-30

Standings: 4th place, 15 games back of Philadelphia. Might have to get rid of this feature.

Up Next: The Mets continue their 10-game homestand with 3 against the Dodgers. (Fun fact: I was originally going to sneak down for Monday’s game to see a Shohei Ohtani game but my wife is about to travel so I thought going together on Saturday was a better bet.)

One quick other baseball note: Last week the Orioles suffered their first regular season sweep since Adley Rutschman was called up. Which is a cool stat and all, but I don’t like it because they got swept when it counted the most in their post-season appearance last year. That’s all.

The Rangers just won in overtime. Woooo-hooo. They’re certainly softening the blow of a disappointing Mets month.

Oh, last thing - I’m working on a fun little Reel that will be on the Instagram account this week. Might want to give that a follow at the link below if you don’t already. Thanks!

Let’s Go Mets. And Let’s Go Rangers.