Be glad that the first-place Mets compete on the same elite level as the first-place Dodgers.
Be glad that the Mets play close, compelling games versus the defending world champions.
Be glad the Mets can show up at Dodger Stadium and grab a quick 1-0 lead off future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw.
Be glad Tylor Megill can shake off a rough four-run first inning and go six without giving up anything else.
Be glad Juan Soto continues his extra-base hit streak.
Be glad Pete Alonso is driving in far more many runs this year than last.
Be glad Brandon Nimmo hustles down the line.
Be glad video replay review is not blind.
Be glad Kershaw isn’t quite in his prime anymore and can be chased before he gets out of the fifth.
Be glad Brandon Waddell is capable of more than soaking up spare innings of lost causes [1].
Be glad Waddell pitched well enough in the seventh to make one wish he had stayed in for the eighth, therefore saving Reed Garrett for the ninth and leaving the bulk of the recently deployed bullpen be.
Be glad Garrett pitches out of eighth-inning jams, especially when adequately rested.
Be glad Ronny Mauricio is healthy again and knows how to instigate a successful rundown between third and home.
Be glad Luis Torrens has the power to drive a ball to the wall as a pinch-hitter for a pinch-hitter for the designated hitter, a skill that might come in handy under more amenable circumstances.
Be glad Huascar Brazoban maintains the recuperative powers to strike out three consecutive batters after giving up a game-tying leadoff ninth-inning home run.
Be glad Soto and Alonso proved earlier in the game they are capable of markedly better at-bats than those they executed in the tenth.
[2]Artist’s rendering of game-losing play.
Be glad Nimmo has the perspective and articulateness to explain in detail and depth [3] how a ball that dropped to the ground a few feet to his right in left — thus ending what instantly became a horrible and painful 6-5 loss [4] — turned distressingly unplayable for an experienced major league outfielder who seemingly makes comparably difficult catches three times per month.
Be glad the Mets play close, compelling games against the Dodgers that would fit well in a postseason rematch between the two combatants.
Be glad this wasn’t a postseason game and therefore doesn’t carry an outsize impact on the Mets’ fortunes.
Be glad this game took place very late at night Eastern Time when relatively few people figured to be alert for its ending and even fewer figured to lie awake thinking about it too much.
Be glad there are more than a hundred games to go.
Be glad there’s another Mets-Dodgers game late tonight.
Be glad the Mets don’t lose in such horrible and painful fashion very often.