The Mets will have to reach the play-offs and win the Wildcard round if they will play at Citi Field again this season.
Of course it can happen.
Or the Mets can just call it a season when the last game on the schedule will be played in Miami next Sunday.
The reality of that possibility crawled closer on Sunday with a 3-2 loss for the Nationals who left the Mets in serious scoreboard viewing mode.
With the loss, the lead of the Mets on the Reds for the third and last place of the NL shroke the place in half a game on the Reds, which stood opposite the Cubs in a later finish.
A Reds victory would officially place the Mets in Chase mode: Cincinnati owns the tiebraker between the two teams.
Jacob Young’s second highlight-reel catch of the game helped to seal it: the National Center Fielder reached over the fence in Left-Midden to rob Francisco Alvarez of a game type Homer who led from the bottom of the ninth.
For a second consecutive day, the METS could not produce enough offensive to handle a National team that was about to finish last in NL East. The Mets went 2-4 in their last two series against the Nationals.
Sean Manaea, who returned to the starting obligation last week after a Bullpen performance, lasted only three innings and allow three points earned on four hits with three strikeouts. Clay Holmes Piggybacked Manaaea and threw 3 ²/₃ scoreless innings. It was a reversal on Tuesday, when Manaea Holmes fights.
Manaea fell into a 3-0 hole in the second inning. Jorge Alfaro stroked a double and Daylen Lile, who had walked from first base, scored on the play after Francisco Lindor had taken the Cutoff and wrongly threw the second base, in an attempt to Nagen Lile. With two out, Nasim Nuñez knew the fence with left field for a two-run Homer.
The Mets went in 3-1 in the bottom of the inning when Cedric Mullins followed the Leadoff-Double of Luis Torrens with an RBI single.
During the piece, Lile slid into the side wall and lost the ball. Umpires meant a time -out for the injury and sent Mullins back to first base after he was initially excluded in second place.
But every chance of a large inning was erased when Lindor stood to first base to start a doubles. Juan Soto followed with a two -squeeze and reached third place on a beam before he was stranded.
Young’s Circus Catch in Center robbed Brett Baty of an extra single in the fifth.
Young hit the fence, bobed the ball and then kicked it in the air (Hacky Zakstijl) in his glove for a stunning one.
Lindor Homerde led it outside the bottom of the sixth against Jake Irvin to cut the lead from the Nationals to 3-2. The Homer was the 28th of Lindor, leaving him in two of Soto and Pete Alonso to give the Mets three players with at least 30 in a season, which would be a first in the franchis history.
Mark Vientos was ejected after protest against a check swing that was ruled three to end the sixth with two runners on the base. Vientos, who put his bat in anger, was ejected by the sign referee John Tumpane.
Alonso hit a single with two out in the eighth and reached second place in a wild pitch before Jeff McNeil retired.
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