Do the Braves have it in them to chase down the Mets again?

It was only two months back, Mets lovers. Imagine how you felt when Max Scherzer pulled himself from a May perhaps 18 commence from the Cardinals. Don't forget the sensation when it was publicly disclosed the next day that the righty had a strained oblique that would sideline him for at minimum six months, joining Jacob deGrom and Tylor Megill as out for fairly a though.

It was a Lucy-pulling-the-football-absent-from-Charlie-Brown minute. The euphoria of probability dimming into way too-acquainted angst and despair.

But a funny detail transpired on the way out of initial area: The Mets improved.

Following the games of May perhaps 18, the Mets experienced the Countrywide League’s 2nd-most effective file at the rear of the Dodgers, and they were in 1st location in the NL East by 6 games at 25-14 (.641). At that minute, which Mets fan would not have signed up for an NCAA Match-style “survive and advance” until the aces returned?

Do the Braves have it in them to chase down the Mets again?