WOW! (Walk Off Wins)
I may have attended my last Mets game of the regular season on Wednesday afternoon.
If I did, it was a fitting way to end a fun season of attending games.
The Mets, as you probably know by now, won 4-3 on a pinch-hit walk-off home run by Jesse Winker in the bottom of the 9th.
This came just two days after my second-to-last game of the regular season, which I attended on a whim - on Monday night I decided to grab a ticket and hang out at Citi Field.
The Mets won that game 4-3, on a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th by Francisco Alvarez.
Notice the pattern?
The final count for me?
The Mets went 11-4 in the 15 games I’ve attended. (Maybe I should have also gone on Tuesday - they probably could have used my winning touch.) (Don’t worry - I did attend a baseball game on my Mets off day - I saw a Brooklyn Cyclones game.)
Of those 11 wins, a shocking 5 of them were walk-off wins…with 4 of those walk-off home runs.
Francisco Lindor had the non-homer, the walk-off double against the Cubs in early May.
The other ones were Mark Vientos against the Cardinals, Brandon Nimmo against Atlanta, and these two games against the Orioles.
It’s been a very exciting season for me, and as I’ve said before, if the season were to end without the playoffs I can’t be too upset.
After 0-5 and the 11 games below .500 in late May, the fact that the Mets have provided any kind of a season to this point is a win in my book. (And that is often a book with very high standards.)
But here we are, with the Mets going west again at 66-61, with a chance to pick up ground on the Padres in the wild card chase. And no off day before they get back to it.
The fact that there’s no off day is almost a good thing if the Mets can carry over the good vibes from this Baltimore series right into that Padres series.
There are 35 games left.
I would like to go to Citi Field again this season. If I do, that means the Mets made the playoffs.
And if they’re going to make the playoffs, they need to have a strong final 35 games.
September, for all intents and purposes, starts now for the Mets.
I’ve seen enough Mets Magic unfold in person this season that I have to believe their chances of playing winning baseball the rest of the way are pretty good.