Maybe the Mets aren’t good. It’s always easy to overreact to the highs and lows of any season when you’re following a team, especially a baseball team that plays 162 games each year. But the Mets have become experts at finding ways to lose, and right now, it’s hard to believe that they spent as much time in first place this year as they did—some of it with the then-best record in baseball.

Today in Milwaukee, things went swimmingly—no sarcasm here, not yet anyway—through the first three innings. The Mets scored twice in the top of the first and once more in each of the second, third, and fourth innings. Sean Manaea was cruising through his first three frames, but things started to go south in the bottom of the fourth. William Contreras hit a solo home run, and Joey Ortiz drove in a pair l

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