Mets can breathe easier with losing streak snapped, but Francisco Lindor's injury adds new hurdle to overcome
It wasn't pretty, but the Mets broke their 12-game losing streak on Wednesday, defeating the Twins, but it wasn't without cost, as Francisco Lindor could be out for an extended period of time.
It wasn’t a statement win, to be sure. It wasn’t a win that said the 12-game losing streak had been some weird, early-season fluke. But on this night, any win was going to feel practically life-changing for the Mets , lifting the weight of the world off their shoulders.
“It’s a sigh of relief,” was the way Luke Weaver put it, after getting the last four outs of the 3-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night at Citi Field. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to go on and win 50 straight games, but it allows us to just go out and play and not worry about trying to end the streak. It was going to take a win like this to get us going.
” By that, he meant a nail-biter, a game that saw the Mets lose leads of 1-0 and 2-1, as everyone in the ballpark seemed to brace for another cruel ending. All the more so when Mark Vientos , one of the slowest runners in baseball, purposefully ran through a stop sign trying to force the action with the game tied 2-2, only to be thrown out by 10 feet. Yep, they were going to lose again.
Why would this night be any different? The Mets hadn’t won since April 7, for crying out loud. So when they didn’t lose, when they finally did find a way to win, with Weaver getting a huge out in the eighth with the bases loaded and then closing out the ninth, and Vientos redeeming himself with a bloop go-ahead single, you could feel a certain lightness in the clubhouse.
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