The Mets just made the last week of August look and feel — and sound — like what they very much hope the first week of October will be like, at Citi Field especially. Now, they have been way too unpredictable since a hot start to make three hot nights turn them into some kind of sure thing to roll through the rest of the regular schedule. Still: For the first time in a while, and against the Phillies, this season really did look like last season.

And once again, the headliner was a kid named Nolan McLean . When was the last time a starting pitcher showed up this big, for either New York team, this late? And looking like this kind of immediate star?

“If the Mets do play well the rest of the way,” Ron Darling said at the end of Wednesday night’s broadcast on SNY, “they’re going to look b

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