In a few weeks, in one final dropkick to summer, we will turn our clocks back an hour, and darkness will descend upon our days earlier and earlier.
The Mets are going a different way. They are setting their watches all the way back to 2015, and by doing that they are trying to keep summer alive as long as possible, trying to keep their days and nights bright with October baseball. It is something to see.
“We played very well,” Carlos Mendoza said in the wake of an 8-4 comeback win over the Brewers Tuesday at American Family Field, on a day when it seemed every Wisconsin family was inside the building and roaring at peak volume. “We were ready for this.”…