Start spreading the dreams: Subway Series in our sights as Mets, Yanks get closer to station
The Mets, however, are this October’s party-crasher. Nearly belly-up by Memorial Day, they rallied from 11 games under .500 in early June, dodged a late July fire sale, were baseball’s best team for four months and still had to squeeze into the playoffs by winning Game 161 on Francisco Lindor’s go-ahead homer in the ninth inning in Atlanta.