Mets could use a successful Subway Series

The email blast from the Mets on Thursday morning was headlined: “Subway Series Starts Tomorrow Limited Tickets Still Available.”

It’s no sin if the Mets don’t sell out the weekend series against the Yankees. But seats may still be available in part because some Mets fans are looking to dump their tickets on the secondary markets.

The way the Mets have played lately, can you blame them? It’s as if the Mets should pay their fans to sit through this mess, not the other way around.

In case you nodded off when this homestand opened - or during it - the Mets lost the first six games. They scored seven runs in that span. They were swept Tuesday and Wednesday by the Orioles, the team with the worst record in baseball.

Now here come the Yankees, who have one of the best records in baseball. It’s a recipe for disaster for the Mets, right?

Or is it? Could a successful weekend against the Yankees be just the tonic for what’s ailing the Mets?

“Without a doubt. Onehundred percent,” Todd Frazier said on Wednesday after the Mets’ 1-0 loss to Baltimore. “This is my second time in the Subway Series.We’re playing against some big guns coming in, man. It’s going to be playoff atmosphere. I really think that kind of stuff - the energy level of the fans and the energy level of who we’ve got pitching coming up, too, the way they’ve been pitching, it’s been pretty exciting, so one big hit here in that series, all of a sudden we’re back to where we need to be.”

Frazier, who was a Yankee during the 2017 Subway Series, was referring to the Mets’ starting pitchers, who have a 2.36 ERA in their last 18 games. The Mets have lost 13 of those games.

The pitching matchups in the first two games favor the Mets: Jacob deGrom against Masahiro Tanaka on Friday and Steven Matz against rookie Domingo German on Saturday. The Mets are “hopeful,” in the word of pitching coach Dave Eiland, that Noah Syndergaard will return from the disabled list and face Yankees ace Luis Severino on Sunday night.

Jim McIsaac / Getty Images Jacob deGrom pitches in the second inning against the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.