What stands in store for Mets from Reds, Diamondbacks such as NL Wild-Card Race comes down on wire

A year after the Mets turned the play -offs and went to the NLCs on an unexpected run, they will try to do the same.

Although this time there is considerably more pressure on the Hoog-Payroll, the team that is about to waste one of his prime seasons by Juan Soto.

Here is a look at what is in store for the Mets in the critical last week of the regular season, as well as for their most important competitors:

Masony

They open a three-game series against the Cubs on Wigley Field on Tuesday and end the regular season with three more in Miami.

The Cubs are at three games about San Diego for the first place in the NL Wild-Card Race and from now on would host the Padres for the best-of-Three Wild-Card Matchup.

They were also just swept in a four-game series against the Reds, one of the non-self-delicious reasons why the Mets are in this not enviable position.

As for the Marlins, after falling to no fewer than 16 games below .500 on 11 June, they have been 51-39 since then and they have won six in a row and 10 of 11.

If they still live in the Wildcard race that last weekend in one way or another, it can make things harder for the Mets.

And even when Miami is out, Mets fans still have PTSD from then the Marlins helped to hit the Mets out of the fight in the last series of the season in both 2007 and ’08.

Red

Rising Cincinnati has won five consecutive won, which is entirely of the side issue in a play-off place thanks to having the tiebraker over the Mets after winning the head-to head season series.

Next for the Reds are the Pirates, which have not been recurring lately, then the Brewers, who have the best record in the sport, but may not have much to play.

Both series are in Cincinnati, which is more bad news for the Mets, who started the Reds on their recent hot stretch, when the Amazin lost two of the three in Cincy earlier this month.

Since then, the Reds have won 10 of the 16 games, while the Mets 11 of 16 have fallen.

Diamondback

Arizona is another team that no one would have accused of writing not so long ago.

But they are on a 15-8 run, including victories in six of their last eight games and are only one match behind the Mets.

And if that is not bad enough, Arizona, just like the Reds, will keep the tiebreaker over the Mets

However, it will not be easy for the d’Anbacks, because they organize and end the Dodgers from Tuesday with three games in San Diego.

Tyrone Taylor could be back in Chicago on Tuesday, that the much needed positive news for the Mets would be because they used the wrestling combination of Cedric Mullins and Jose Siri since Taylor fell last month with a tense left hamstring.

Kodai Senga, who wants to show that he is worthy of the late season – if the Mets come there – is expected to come across live Hitters in Port St. Lucie, Tuesday or Wednesday.

The right-handed, it was decided to work Triple-A Syracuse on his mechanics, threw poorly in his most recent start, which meant four points on six hits in just 3 ²/₃ innings.