Those Mets were playing ‘like s–t’ and then they weren’t — finding hope for a season in jeopardy

Source: New York Post

This was the moment when it felt like the walls were about to cave in for good in that last week of September 1999, and Edgardo Alfonzo was officially lost. The Mets had spent the past four months playing superb baseball. Just over a week earlier, safely in the playoff picture, they’d flown to Atlanta a game out of first place, intent on catching the Braves.