Approaching history, Familia sees streak end

NEW YORK — A Mets team starved for magic received a hatful of it in the seventh inning on Wednesday night at Citi Field, when Yoenis Cespedes parked a go-ahead, two-run homer off the second deck in left-center field to turn a seemingly inevitable loss into a probable win.

“Suddenly, the whole game got set up in our favor,” manager Terry Collins said afterward, lamenting what happened next in a 5-4 Mets defeat. “You’ve got the eighth and the ninth innings set up pretty good, you think. Then the Cardinals show you why they’re a good team.”

What the Cardinals did was nearly as dispiriting as what the Padres did to Jeurys Familia last July 30, waiting out two rain delays to beat him on a nightmare afternoon for the Mets in New York. Since that game, Familia had converted 52 consecutive regular-season saves, third most all time, including a franchise-record 36 in a row to start this season.

The Cardinals snapped both streaks in rather unceremonious fashion on Wednesday, …

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