If only it were this easy. If only managing a baseball team were like clicking on the DoorDash app on your iPhone when you’re hungry, …
If only it were this easy. If only managing a baseball team were like clicking on the DoorDash app on your iPhone when you’re hungry, all those options, all those possibilities. Craving Five Guys? Sushi? Chick-Fil-A? Mexican? All of the above? Click. Then walk to your doorstep 40 minutes later. Boom. If baseball were the GrubHub app, Luis Rojas would’ve sat in his office at Citi Field just before 1 o’clock Sunday afternoon and determined everything his club was badly craving. Hitting? Click Quality start? Click Shutdown work from the bullpen? Click Defense? Click. Two hours and 42 minutes of tight, tidy baseball later, Rojas and the Mets were walking off the field with a 4-0 win that not only secured this series from the Nationals and not only upped the Mets’ home record to 6-2 (all of the games against NL East rivals) but also provided them with a blueprint for how they can make just about all of the nagging concerns that have haunted them these first few weeks of the season dissolve like an Alka-Seltzer tablet in a glass of water. “We played extremely crisp today,” Pete Alonso said. “We were a very tough team to play against today.” Baseball is tricky, though. Last week’s comedy of errors can beget today’s perfect game, which can easily beget Tuesday’s house of horrors.
