The Mets seem to have this uncanny ability this season to come from behind. Last night, the team displayed this ability once again coming back in both the sixth and eighth innings en route to an 8-6 victory in Miami.
In the sixth inning, Juan Lagares drove in Todd Frazier on a sacrifice fly after Jacob deGrom imploded the inning prior as he allowed four runs.
Furthermore, the Mets responded similarly in the eighth inning after Justin Bour hit his second two-run homer of the game off Jacob Rhame in the seventh.
Wilmer Flores and Asdrubal Cabrera both hit home runs off Kyle Barraclough to tie the game once again.
This is the eighth time this season already that, ten games into the season, the Mets have scored the tying or leading run the next half inning after allowing a game-leading run to the opposing team.
That is resilience at its finest.
Many of the past Mets teams struggled to do that on occasion, let alone at the frequency they have been doing it so far this season.
It is an awfully impressive stat to have early in the season.
Whether this is here to stay all year remains to be seen, but the team has done a great job so far in finding ways to never fall out of the game completely.
They are exuding the type of confidence right now that the elite teams do, which is showing that they have the idea in their minds that the game is never over.
Last year, if the Mets fell behind any point past the sixth inning, the expectation was they were going to lose even if they could find a way to cut the deficit temporarily. Either they wouldn’t come back or the bullpen would blow it for them anyways.
However, the players seem to have the confidence that they are not done until the last out right now, and that is a persona that this team needs to keep going forward.
