Having gotten off to an 0-4 start this season and lost a second starting pitcher to injury during that stretch, the last thing the Mets need right now is a deluge of games. Thanks to very rainy weather, though, that’s what they’re about to have, as they were rained out last night and are almost certainly going to get rained out again tonight.
In that scenario, the team will have to play the second and third games of its series against the Tigers as a doubleheader tomorrow. That would set off a stretch that sees the Mets scheduled to play fifteen games in fourteen days: three against the Reds and four against the Braves on the road followed by three games each against the Royals and Pirates at home.