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The day began in earnest at 10:39 a.m., when a man on the press level at old Shea Stadium flicked a button and in an instant the enormous scoreboard in right-center field crackled to life. The remnants of the previous night’s out-of-town scoreboard were still listed, notably the one atop the left side, where the American League scores were posted: MIL 13, NYY 10.

That snapped an 11-game winning streak for the Yankees. The Mets had suffered a similarly excruciating loss, and the evidence was still there in detail across the bottom of the scoreboard, a 10-inning linescore with a “1” in the top of the 10th, a remind

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