Veteran Mets not getting caught up in 0-4 start: ‘Know we’re better than that’
NY Post
On one side of the clubhouse hours before Tuesday’s game was rained out, a few veterans faced off in a game of pool.
On the other side, several players were shooting baskets at a hoop that Francisco Lindor has helped popularize.
If fans were tense, players were loose.
A mostly veteran Mets club is used to the fickle nature of baseball. Teams go through runs and ruts.
The fact the Mets have begun slowly — still searching for their first win in Game 5 of the season, a search that will be extended at least an extra day — has been noticed and not appreciated, but there was not yet a trace of panic.
“I’m sure nobody’s happy,” Adam Ottavino said before a Mets-Tigers game at Citi Field was called because of an unrelenting storm. “But at the same time, there are a lot of baseball games, so I don’t think you can worry about it too much. You got to forget about it.”
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