NY Mets fans will absolutely believe whose history they matched with 9th-inning follies vs. Braves

When the New York Mets scored 5 runs in Sunday’s win over the Atlanta Braves, it felt like garbage time points. A 5-3 lead extended to 10-3. Devin Williams sat and Huascar Brazoban was asked by Andy Green to get the team 3 outs.

The Atlanta Braves came roaring back with 6 runs of their own including a Drake Baldwin grand slam to chase Brazoban to the showers. Williams did enter and tight-rope walked the team to victory. 11 total runs scored in the ninth inning, it was the first time two teams scored 5+ runs in the ninth inning since another infamous Mets game.

The Mets and Braves matched the infamous Kurt Suzuki Game

The Mets were ahead 5-4 against the Washington Nationals on the road. A Brandon Nimmo home run, Jeff McNeil single, and Pete Alonso 3-run bomb gave them a 10-4 lead with 3 outs to go. 

Mickey Callaway called upon the Mets' version of Paul Sewald to finish off the game. It went as bad as it could go. Sewald retired only 1 of the 5 batters he faced before getting yanked for Luis Avilan. Now a 10-6 game, a Juan Soto single loaded the bases.

The three-batter minimum rule hadn’t been born yet and Callaway decided it was time to go to Edwin Diaz. Remember, just like this was the New York version of Sewald, we were getting mistreated to the 2019 version of Diaz. A pinch hit double by Ryan Zimmerman scored 2 more runs. Up stepped Kurt Suzuki and on a full count, he parked to give the Nationals an 11-10 victory.

The loss pushed the Mets to 70-68. The Nationals, weeks before winning a World Series, put a dagger through a New York squad that was beginning to turn their season around late. An unofficial death blow, it was a signature moment of why the 2019 Mets never should have thought they were built the right way. Late collapses were a signature of that team. Diaz with a 5.59 ERA that year and Jeurys Familia at 5.70, real ones know the team was a competent bullpen away from actually being good enough to make the playoffs.

When the season ended, they had 86 wins and were 3 behind the second NL Wild Card team, the Milwaukee Brewers. Losses like this one to the Nationals were a reason why they fell short.

On the right side of history this time around, we still don’t get much of a sigh of relief. This was a game the Mets should have had in the bag. The Braves, while losers, got the moral victory. The Mets went back to their hotel rooms scared stiff with a rare embarrassing win.

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