Things were just going too well for the Mets, weren’t they?
A nice cushion atop the National League East, one of the best rotations in baseball and an offense to match. Something, inevitably, would have to give. Well, that something just happened to be Max Scherzer’s oblique.
On Thursday, New York announced Scherzer would be shelved for 6-8 weeks after he pulled himself from Wednesday’s game following an injury on the mound. Not even 24 hours later, a nightmare scenario emerged: the Mets would now be without Max for two months—all while already down Jacob deGrom and Tylor Megill.
