Mets 5, Diamondbacks 4 10 innings

(14-13, 2nd place, 1 game behind Philadelphia)

If nothing else, the Mets have not lacked for excitement and news this season.

And, if I’m honest, I can’t really keep up.

So I need to weigh in real quick here before another news cycle sweeps this one out of the way.

I guess the big thing that I need to catch up on is Francisco Lindor getting a hit on Thursday during the series finale in St. Louis - a series which the Mets split that allowed them to go 4-3 on the road trip.

For Lindor, it snapped an 0-for-26 slump.

That was a nightmare - but it’s not like he wasn’t getting on base at all - his on base is respectable compared to his average. But I digress.

I feel like he's going to start hitting now, and he did on Friday night, with a game-tying 2-run home run in the bottom of the 7th inning. (The Mets won on a bases loaded dribbler off recent call-up [due to the Brandon Nimmo and J.D. Davis injuries] Patrick Mazeika’s bat.)

That followed what apparently was a dust-up in the dugout tunnel though between, Jeff McNeil and Lindor. Here’s more on that.

After the game Lindor said they were arguing over whether there was a rat or a raccoon in the tunnel…and McNeil later said it might have been a possum.

Which is a really weird distraction from the truth in a week full of made-up stories and distractions.

But it’s also a week where the Mets have been winning games.

I hope nothing more comes of this, because it only ends bad. If the Mets have to make a choice between Lindor and McNeil, McNeil is out of luck. The guy who has hundreds of millions of dollars invested in him is the one whose side they’ll take.

And I like McNeil as a hitter…and what he’s become as a fielder. Second base is his, which hasn’t always been the case - I don’t want to see that change.

What I’d like to see? If fists are going to fly I’d love for it to happen against Philadelphia after a teammate is wronged….not between teammates.