Following the Mets walkover 7-6 victory over the New York Yankees this afternoon, their spring training record stands at 9-19. Not a good record. Not at all. But the good thing is that this record will not matter in just a couple of hours. Once the regular season begins Thursday afternoon, every team will start 0-0 (outside of the four teams who will have opened by then).
What does matter, is how the team is playing leading up to the regular season. How everything is coming together for the club. For as poor as the record looks, the Mets are 3-3 in their final week of spring training, winning their last two games. What is most important for Terry Collins however is that this afternoon, he was able to run out his Opening Day lineup for the first time this spring. Because of all the minor, and more concerning, injuries throughout camp, the Mets haven't been able to consistently run out their regulars and get a consistency in order.
It's only a one game sample, so of course it isn't the way it'll be all season, but this afternoon's game saw Wright, Murphy, Duda, and Thole have multiple hits, Torres come back to the lineup to score two runs from the leadoff spot, and Davis hit the walk off homerun. Hell, even Pelfrey had a solid final outing on the mound.
Things seem to be coming together of late. Whether or not this will translate into wins once the regular season begins is another story, but it's on the right path.
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