I've been covering sports for 20 years, and I've never seen a more improbable comeback stat than this: the New York Mets were 0-91 when trailing after eight innings dating back to last season. Ninety-one losses in a row when down late. That's not a slump, folks - that's a mathematical certainty of defeat.

Until Saturday night in the Subway Series.

Tyrone Taylor crushed a game-tying three-run homer in the ninth inning to tie it up against the Yankees, and Citi Field absolutely erupted. But they weren't done. Carson Benge delivered the walk-off hit, and just like that, the most impossible streak in baseball was over.

Let me put this in perspective. If you're a Mets fan and your team is down after eight innings, you've watched them lose ninety-one consecutive times since the start of last season. You'd have better odds playing the lottery. You'd turn off the TV, go to bed, accept defeat - because that's what the data told you to do.

But Tyrone Taylor didn't care about the data. He stepped to the plate in the ninth, down by three runs, and launched a missile into the New York night. Three runs. Game tied. And suddenly, the impossible didn't seem so impossible anymore.

As Tim Britton of The Athletic put it: "The best win of the season caps the best week of the season. The Mets are 20-26." Yeah, they're still under .500. But this? This is the kind of win that can change a season. This is the kind of never-say-die moment that defines championship runs.

And the fact that it happened in the Subway Series - against their crosstown rivals, in front of their home crowd, after 91 straight failures in this exact scenario - makes it even sweeter. The Yankees had to stand there and watch the Mets celebrate on their own field. That's New York baseball at its finest.

The Mets have been a disaster for most of this season. They've been inconsistent, frustrating, maddeningly mediocre. But baseball has a way of giving you moments that make all the pain worth it. This was one of those moments.