For The Upside Down Mets, More Worries About Haunted Young Pitchers
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 12: Jonah Tong #21 of the New York Mets pitches during the first inning against the Texas Rangers at Citi Field on September 12, 2025 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Ishika Samant/Getty Images) Getty Images For nearly three hours last night, the darkly comic references about the Mets’ seventh straight loss — but the first on a “Stranger Things” night at Citi Field — easily wrote themselves. Of course the Mets’ three-month funk, grislier and longer than any Season 4 episode, would continue with an 8-3 loss to the Rangers. The defeat, coupled with the Giants’ 5-1 win over the Dodgers, cut the Mets’ lead in the race for the final wild card to a half-game — an unimaginable horror for a team that had the best record in baseball at 45-24 through June 12. And of course the Mets, mired forever in the Upside Down, would not only get routed in Jacob deGrom’s return to Citi Field but would surrender six runs and dip into the bullpen before deGrom — the poster boy for meager run support during his time in Queens — even threw his first pitch. (The Mets scored as many as six runs with deGrom on the mound 29 times in his 209 regular season starts) By the fourth inning, the scoreboard was no longer airing pictures of Demigorgans in place of the usual mug shots for Rangers players, presumably because fictional horrors couldn’t match the real thing. By the ninth inning, when Ryan Helsley took the mound to the now-ironic and badly misplaced “Hells Bells,” the Mets could have used Gaten Matarazzo, who plays Dustin and threw a ceremonial first pitch that at least landed in the vicinity of home plate. But any rueful…
