Ridiculous Stat About Mets Comeback Proves This Team is Similar to Magical 2015 World Series Team
By Michael Luciano
After most fans out there considered them dead and buried before the trade deadline, Mickey Callaway and the New York Mets are making a charge towards the postseason on the back of an absurd hot streak. The Mets have now won 14 of their last 15, including a four-run comeback off of Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle in the ninth inning last night, capped off by a walk-off single by Michael Conforto.
The last time the Mets had a comeback of this magnitude was 2015, the same year they won the NL and made it the World Series.
How unlikely was that #Mets comeback in the 9th?
— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) August 10, 2019
They were 0-187 in games they trailed by 3 runs or more in the 9th inning later since the last time they won a game like that - on Sept. 13, 2015!
h/t @EliasSports
Before the deadline, the Mets were known as chokers with an imploding bullpen led by Edwin Diaz and a lineup full of players who couldn't hit a beach ball outside of Jeff McNeil and Pete Alonso.
Since the deadline, which was headlined by a trade for Marcus Stroman, the Mets have been sizzling hot. Their starting pitching is performing how the back of their baseball card says they should, while the lineup has morphed into the '27 Yankees. The Mets now lie just a half a game out of a Wild Card spot.
The #Mets (60-56) open play today still 1/2 game behind the #Brewers for the 2nd wild card. They trail the #Nationals by just 1 1/2 games for the top wild card spot and the #Braves by 8 games in the NL East. There are 46 games remaining, and their playoff odds are up to 47%. pic.twitter.com/FntXulGOwZ
— Michael Baron (@michaelgbaron) August 10, 2019
Not only would this run have been unthinkable a few weeks ago, predicting this would have been laughable. Someway, somehow, those plucky Mets keeping finding ways to get it done.