PHILADELPHIA — The Mets have reached the stage of the season they by no means hoped to see: one eye on their very own sport and one eye on the out-of-town scoreboard.
With their division hopes completed, the Mets can transition into making certain they wrap up the third and remaining NL wild card, a race that has develop into extra heated than they supposed.
4 straight losses coming into Wednesday’s sport at Residents Financial institution Park introduced Carlos Mendoza’s group simply two video games forward of the Drew Gilbert-José Buttó-Wilmer Flores Giants and three video games forward of a Reds membership that took a collection from the Mets final weekend.
The extended stretch of poor play from a proficient Mets group has led to official concern whether or not a gaggle that reached the NLCS final season after which added Juan Soto might miss the postseason.