The Mets and Astros Improve a Season Later

Last baseball’s regular season ended with a virtually meaningless interleague series between the New York Mets and Houston Astros, the two 1962 National League expansion franchises. It is really early, but imagining these two teams meeting in baseball’s last and most important series, The World Series, is not out of the question.

The Mets bounced back from a horrible defeat last Thursday vs the San Diego Padres, by sweeping a weekend series from the Washington Nationals, leaving the Mets and Nationals tied for first place in the N.L. East

Meanwhile the Houston Astros, a 22 to 1 longshot to win the A.L. West at the season’s beginning, now have a four game lead in that division.

The Mets and Astros met in one of the greatest post season series in baseball history, a six game Mets’ triumph in the 1986 NLCS.

It still is a nice longshot, but the juxtaposition between the two teams’ status at season’s end last year and this point of the 2015 season is astounding in a positive way for both teams. This even more so for the Astros, but a good story for the Mets as well.