Since we're Mets fans, we all knew the bullpen had issues. Since we're adults, we all know progress isn't always or even usually a smooth arc - it comes with fits and starts.
A day after blowing a big lead because of a nightmarish inning of relief, the Mets endured a bunch of bad luck, came back to tie it, had the game gift-wrapped for them, failed to capitalize on it, and saw another nightmarish inning of relief.
I'm up in Maine, and the first half of the game was glimpsed during and between chores - which meant lots and lots of shots of Luis Severino looking perturbed and trudging around after yet another Houston hit felled in. I was at my station when the Mets launched a furious comeback, with Brandon Nimmo's swing and a drive the exclamation mark.
And then? Weather delay. A very long weather delay - a whole game's worth, in fact. The game came back while we were in the car seeking dinner, and proceeded as an animated Gameday rectangle in the pub we like a few towns over.
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