NEW YORK — It’s Eduardo Escobar’s world, we’re all just living in it.
In watching Escobar over the last three weeks, it’s genuinely hard to believe this is the same guy who had a .676 OPS in the season’s first half. In the second half, that number was at .830 entering Saturday’s game and 1.141 since Aug. 30.
During the Mets’ 5-1 win over the Pirates on Saturday, Escobar got things going with a three-run homer in the second inning and narrowly missed hitting a second one out in the fourth. With Chris Bassitt free to toy with the Pirates’ untrained lineup, the Mets sewed up a series win over Pittsburgh for the second time this month.
