There were encouraging signs on Saturday in a 9-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants. “He eases any kind of tension up and down the lineup,” Mets second baseman Neil Walker said of Cespedes. With the Mets enjoying a comfortable lead thanks to De Aza’s three-run homer, Cespedes added his second shot in the seventh. “Today was a good day,” Cespedes said. With David Wright and Lucas Duda out, the Mets’ lineup will never be whole this season, but the team is struggling to achieve even its current semblance of normal.

Source: New York Times August 21, 2016 01:23 UTC