WASHINGTON — Nearing the end of an important two-week stretch of schedule, 13 consecutive games against their fellow members of the NL East, the immediate group against which they must measure themselves, the Mets are — as manager Buck Showalter would say — presenting well.
They handled Philadelphia with relative ease, taking series on back-to-back weekends, first in New York and then in Philly. In between, they split with Atlanta, which was fine. And now they get to beef up against the new cellar-dwellers: Washington.
The Mets’ 4-2 win on Tuesday, opening a three-game series that will conclude this run of intra-division action, featured another strong start from Carlos Carrasco and a huge hit from Jeff McNeil, a tying two-run double in the sixth.
