The article creatively imagines a scenario where painful Mets games are the only options in a purgatorial afterlife. It reflects on a frustrating recent game against the Diamondbacks where missed opportunities, bad luck, and questionable managerial decisions led to yet another loss. The narrative highlights the Mets' struggles, noting the high incidence of one-run losses this season and creates a comically grim view of what it means to be a Mets fan during tough times.
Wednesday night's game was frustrating even before the bottom of the ninth, when everything fizzled against Ryan Thompson and the Mets wound up a run in arrears.
The Mets kept squandering chances big and small: Juan Soto got just under two balls, eliciting Citi Field cries of delight that turned into consternation.
Corbin Burnes looked like he was on the ropes in the first but somehow wiggled free, and the Mets' chances slipped away.
Fairness compels your chronicler to venture that Stanek was mostly unlucky, done in by a broken-bat hit and a little parachute Jeff McNeil had no way of reaching.
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