Last Mets player to break camp continues to pass the stress test with a smile

When DJ Stewart hit a 388-foot home run to put the Mets ahead of the Cubs 4-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning on Tuesday, he made sure to look over at Mets manager Carlos Mendoza and smile. It's sort of an inside joke the two men share, dating back to the beginning of the season when Stewart, the last player to make the team out of spring training, felt “stressed out” about his future after the Mets signed J.D. Martinez. Mendoza, who described Stewart as having “a cloud on top of him” at the time, would remind him to “smile.”