For a brief moment in time as of Thursday, April 23, 2015, the New York Mets have the best record in Major League Baseball.
Yes, I’m 100% serious.
The Mets have won 11 straight after a 6-3 victory against the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday and are now the proud owners of a 13-3 record. They finished 10-0 on their first homestand of the season after sweeping three of their National League East rivals. The Mets have never won all 10 games on a homestand before, and they’re the seventh team in major league history to do so and the first since the 1991 Minnesota Twins.
Sportscenter has taken to tweeting daily about the Mets, a team typically forgotten about by mainstream media.
The baseball season is still young – we’re not even 20 games in yet – but analysts are getting out their record books and comparing the 2015 Mets to previous teams, trying to give those poor Mets fans a little glimmer of hope.
That’s what baseball is all about, though. Predictions and numbers and the idea of your team going all the way after suffering for so many years.
Up next for the Mets is a quick subway line number 7 ride from the city into the Bronx to play the New York Yankees for the annual Subway Series. The Mets hope to continue their winning streak while the Yanks, who are only 1/2 game behind the Boston Red Sox, will look to break the streak and move up in the American League East.
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