The last week of June was a point of no return for Mets fans who began the baseball season with high hopes, even if they didn’t drink the Kool-Aid new general manager Brodie Van Wagenen had been peddling after proclaiming them “the team to beat.”
Their bullpen was in full meltdown, with closer Edwin Diaz having morphed from a stopper last year with Seattle into a man blowing late-inning leads with alarming regularity. More often, however, less-celebrated members of the pen were frittering away leads before Mr. Diaz could be summoned, and this was the week in which Seth Lugo was finding new ways to torment the team’s faithful fans.
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