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Mets know they face tough test in Bumgarner
- Updated: October 3, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — There is some symmetry in the fact that the Mets’ National League Wild Card Game opponent is the Giants. It was on Aug. 19 that the Mets hit the low point of their season, falling two games under .500 and thinking — they admit this freely now — that it just might not be their year.
The next night the Mets beat San Francisco behind Yoenis Cespedes’ two homers. The night after that, Noah Syndergaard pitched one of the best games of his career in yet another victory. And from that point forward, the Mets constructed Major League Baseball’s best record, clinching a Wild Card date with Madison Bumgarner and those same Giants.
“They’re a great team,” Mets manager Terry Collins said after Sunday’s 5-2 loss to the Phillies. “They had a rough second half, everybody knows that. But they’re very talented. I know they’re probably banged up a little bit, like we are. But we had to work real hard to get in. We had to reach down inside, so we can do it again.”
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The Giants present a straightforward challenge: Their starting pitcher, Bumgarner, is one of the best in baseball, a legitimate Cy Young Award …
