Mets display same winning vibe as team that went to 2015 World Series

In a few weeks, in one final dropkick to summer, we will turn our clocks back an hour, and darkness will descend upon our days earlier and earlier.The Mets are going a different way.They are setting their watches all the way back to 2015, and by doing that they are trying to keep summer alive as long as possible, trying to keep their days and nights bright with October baseball.

It is something to see.“We played very well,” Carlos Mendoza said in the wake of an 8-4 comeback win over the Brewers Tuesday at American Family Field, on a day when it seemed every Wisconsin family was inside the building and roaring at peak volume.“We were ready for this.”These Mets have channeled those Mets in a couple of ways already.

In 2015, the Mets couldn’t get out of their way for weeks at a time, same as this one.There was a rolling tide of personnel changes at and around both trading deadlines.And once the roster was complete, it felt like a different hero — remember Kirk Nieuwenhuis? Remember Wilmer Flores? Remember Kelly Johnson? Remember Addison Reed? — fell out of the sky every day through September.

That team may have made the playoffs with more ease than this one, but at the end they only won one more game than this one.It was in the playoffs when the ’15 Mets did their best work.And these last two days, it feels like the ’24 Mets are doing their best work, too.Beginning Monday afternoon, Game 1 in Atlanta — which, let’s be honest, was a play-in game, if not a playoff game — and on through Tuesday night’s lid-lifter in Milwaukee, they’ve looked exactly like what they’ve been since June 1.They’ve looked like the best team in baseball.They’ve looked like as confident a bunch as a humbling sport allows, and once again baseball can be so mystifying; a few days earlier, in this very same ballpark, the Mets had looked like the terrified teenagers in a “Friday the 13th” movie, all of them waiting for Jason Voorhees to strike.Now?“You’re...