It Even Rains In The Alternate Universe

So wait, the Mets scored nine runs at Citi Field, and Brandon Lyon didn't give up a run in the ninth? Am I in some sort of Bizarro World?

I guess I should mention that the Mets won 9-1. It goes back to the old story "Hey how many did the Mets score today? … Oh, 13? That's great! Did they win?"

Jeremy Hefner was great on Tuesday, pitching seven strong innings giving up only four hits and two walks. The lineup gave Patrick Corbin his first loss of the season as they scored seven runs in the seventh as Brad Ziegler couldn't keep three inherited runners from scoring immediately following a long rain delay. One night after the Mets left 20 runners on base, they took the next logical step and bunched some of those hits together and the runs squirted out like a pulverized kidney stone.

The Mets did most of their damage at the bottom of the order, with Anthony Recker and Omar Quintanilla combining for five RBI's on the night. For the Mets to get one of their most dominating wins of the year on the backs of Hefner, Recker, Quintanilla, and a scoreless ninth from Lyon means that this was the result of Mercury being in retrograde, and the Diamondbacks being distracted by the vote to keep the Coyotes in Arizona.

But hey, the Mets beat a first place team. Sure, it's a first place team that came into the game 42-40. But why quibble? The Mets have won two straight, and Matt Harvey is on the bump tomorrow. What could go wrong? Well, perhaps the fact that Harvey gets no run support and the bullpen keeps blowing his games like they were a Queensbridge escort. Also, the Mets need to make a strong push towards the All-Star break by playing Arizona two more times with a day game after a night game on the back of two long nights. Then they make the very linear road trip of Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh. Who the hell makes this schedule, a 7-year-old coloring outside the lines?

But why worry about the future when the present is filled with sunshine? (Well virtual sunshine, since it's rained pretty much the entire season.)