NEW YORK — These days, the alleged dog days, against good teams and bad, in games with heightened importance to the postseason race and throwaway midweek series, no matter the quality of the opposing starting pitcher, the Mets have turned the diamond at Citi Field into their own personal merry-go-around.
Hit-by-pitch, walk, single, sacrifice fly — boom, two runs in the first inning. Walk, single, steal, single, single, single — bam, three more runs in the second.
On and on they went Wednesday in a 10-2 victory over the Reds, the Mets’ sixth win in a row, eighth in nine games and 15th in 17 games.
