After an ugly five-game losing streak, the Mets came home for a seven-game homestand against the Washington Nationals and the Detroit Tigers. Before Monday night’s game, the Mets players had a meeting with Brodie Van Wagenen and the front office along with the coaching staff.

The meeting was a reinforcement of the confidence the front office has in their team and their coaching staff. Whatever was said specifically in that meeting must’ve sparked something in the Mets, as they came out on top in the first game of a four-game series.

Offense

The Mets put up five runs in the first game of the series on a pair of home runs and a few hits from some unlikely candidates. The first two runs were two home runs from Rosario and Alonso to kick the game into high gear. The next two runs came from a single by Todd Frazier to score Rosario and a double from Carlos Gomez to score Ramos who was at second.

Before Monday’s game, Todd was batting .417 in his last six games and since his two hits Monday night and his hit in Tuesday’s game that number has only gone up. As for Gomez, he had his first hit as Met since 2008. After a pinch-hit single from Dominic Smith, Gomez scored and the Mets had scored five runs to beat the Nationals.

In game two of the series, the Mets get their second walk-off win of the season from Amed Rosario who “kicked it into a whole other gear” to get an infield hit in the bottom of the ninth with two outs. Jeff McNeil got his first hit of the game in the 5th inning to score Juan Lagares. McNeil snapped his brief slump with a two-hit game on Tuesday.

J.D. Davis smacked a three-run pinch-hit home run to right field in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Mets a 4-3 lead. This was J.D. Davis‘ second pinch-hit home run of his career and first as a member of the New York Mets. After the Nationals got in from again in the top of the eighth inning, Pete Alonso struck back with a 417 ft home run to left field to tie up the game. Alonso has now broken the Mets club record for most home runs prior to the All-Star game by a rookie with 16.

Bullpen

In Monday night’s game, Wilmer Font gave the Mets four innings of work giving up two earned runs in his third outing as a Met. Looking for some quality innings from the bullpen Mickey Callaway turned to RHP Drew Gagnon to give the team some length. Gagnon took to the challenge and did the team one better by throwing two perfect no-hit innings.

Robert Gsellman came into the game for two outs after working two innings the previous day and worked a scoreless rest of the eighth. Edwin Diaz, had a rough start to the 9th hitting the first batter he faced then giving up a single to Gomes. Ultimately, he came out with his 11th save of the season.

Tuesday night’s game was a little more tough on the bullpen, but they were able to overcome some of their mistakes. After Jeurys Familia and Daniel Zamora combined to give up two runs charged to Jeurys, Bachelor and Diaz closed the door to hold the Nationals off just enough for the Mets to come out on top in this spectacular walk-off-win.

Starting Pitchers

Wilmer Font gave the Mets four innings of two-run baseball which is really all you can ask for from a spot starter. His ERA was lowered from 7.08 to 6.66 after a great outing on Monday night.

Zack Wheeler bounced back from a less than stellar six-run six-inning outing on May 16 against the Nationals. Fortunately, Wheeler felt great today and threw six innings of one-run baseball. He went back out for the seventh and gave up two more runs, but still looked great. Wheeler topped out at 118 pitches for the night with six strikeouts and only gave up four hits. Zack knocks his ERA down to 4.74 for the year and looks to be on the path to success.

Positive Injury Updates

Michael Conforto rode on a bike today which is his first physical activity since his collision with Cano in the game on Saturday. He has not shown symptoms of a more serious concussion. Hopefully, he is recovering well and will be back sooner rather than later. Michael is eligible to return to the team this Friday, but the team will not commit to his timeline for return as “concussion are tricky”. Either way, Conforto will return at some point and that is good news.

Jason Vargas has been progressing nicely in his rehab assignments and will be throwing a bullpen on Friday. Depending on how that goes, he can slide back into the rotation as early as this weekend. In his Binghamton start, he threw four innings of one-run baseball which sounds just as good as a Font spot start.

To Summarize…

No need to panic just yet. This Mets team has promise and are a talented bunch comprised of talented veterans and young fiery players eager to play. It is still early in the season to panic, however, the Mets do need to keep this energy up going into the rest of this series and going forward. If the Mets want to keep this NL East race close they need to pick themselves back up after a loss like they have the last two days after getting swept in Miami and focus on one game at a time.

Look at it this way, the Mets have already tied the series, even if they lose each of the next two games to Washington.