Mets finding themselves in slam slump
Published 4/25/2008 by Marty Noble at Major League Baseball News
They were heady times for the Mets. "Grand" might be a more apropos modifier. They led the National League East by so great a margin, the combined leads of the other five division leaders barely exceeded the Mets' -- 12 1/2 to 12 games. They just had won seven of 10 games, outscoring their opponents by 20 runs.
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