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“#Mets subs admirably holding down the fort<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow can I stay mad at you?\u201d<\/em>
\u2014 Homer Simpson, to a rancid sandwich that nearly killed him.<\/em><\/p>\n

MIAMI \u2014 The injury-depleted Mets dropped a 3-1 decision to the Marlins Saturday evening, here at the ridiculously spelled loanDepot park, when Garrett Cooper smoked Drew Smith\u2019s two-out, ninth-inning, full-count cutter over the wall in left-center field, scoring Brian Anderson along with him. So ended yet another nail-biter for Luis Rojas\u2019 group, their fifth straight game<\/a>, all against National League East opponents, settled by one or two runs. The Mets are 3-2 in that stretch and will go for their second straight series<\/a> victory Sunday.<\/p>\n

Look, this can\u2019t last for the long term. They need enough of their core players to return to active play. They need $341-million man Francisco Lindor, quietly improving offensively, to be louder with the bat.<\/p>\n

Yet at a time when they could collapse, the Mets are not merely winning sufficiently. They are producing a throwback, enjoyable style of baseball in the process, and you can see how much they revel in each triumph. How much they enjoy, deservedly, the great moments even if the final result goes against them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really showing the character of this team. It\u2019s a ton of fun,\u201d said Dom Smith, who delivered the Mets\u2019 one RBI on the day as well as a highlight defensive play. \u201cAll these tight games it\u2019s really helping us prepare for the postseason.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Johneshwy
Johneshwy Fargas robs Marlins\u2019 Jesus Aguilar of an extra-base hit in the eighth inning of the Mets\u2019 3-1 loss.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Smith dove to his right to spear Miguel Rojas\u2019 grounder, throwing from his tuchus to get the ball to Miguel Castro in time to end the eighth inning. The very next Marlins batter, Jesus Aguilar, led off the ninth with a blast to right-center field that Johneshwy Fargas stopped with a dive and a snow-cone catch, prompting Drew Smith to exclaim, \u201c[Bleep] yeah, baby!\u201d That the game ended minutes later should take away some, but for sure not all, from those moments.<\/p>\n

The irony is, if all goes according to plan, only two or three guys who played Saturday \u2014 certainly Lindor and Dom Smith, perhaps catcher Tomas Nido \u2014 would start in a playoff Game 1. The Mets as put together by Sandy Alderson and his deputies will ride the home run to success or the lack thereof to failure.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless if I may be the first person to ever offer this thought, the baseball season constitutes more of a marathon than a sprint. You can\u2019t anticipate all of the adversity along the way. You must adjust. These Mets have adjusted.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes it\u2019s different than what we had,\u201d Luis Rojas acknowledged. \u201cWe haven\u2019t been this fast as a team. Now we can create some things.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Tying together the mention of Rojas as well as the season being a marathon: Nope, I\u2019m not going all in on the \u201cRojas should\u2019ve kept Joey Lucchesi in the game longer!\u201d argument. Lucchesi entered the game with a 9.19 ERA. He hadn\u2019t clocked more than 3 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings. For him to craft four brilliant innings, striking out eight and walking one? Let him go out on a high note and bring that into his next outing. Besides, his successor Sean Reid-Foley allowed just one run in 2 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings himself.)<\/p>\n