69-69, for the 1st time in their record.

27-27 in 1-operate online games, the most these nail-biters of any 2021 club.

Do these Mets glance like a playoff staff to you?

They absolutely sure didn’t on Monday afternoon at Nationals Park, as Edwin Diaz handed over a 4-3 victory to the white-flag-drawn Nats, his next blown conserve of this wraparound series. They confident really don’t, in the bigger photo, nevertheless related many thanks only to the Nationwide League’s forgiving center and decreased courses, standing at .500 thanks to an 8-2 rampage from these Nats and the Marlins.

Of system, the magnificence of sporting activities is you do not have to glance like a playoff group, or even engage in like a single, to be a group in the playoffs. Which is why the Mets have to have not give up hope in spite of blowing a golden option to gain floor on the dormant Braves and Padres and remain apace with the triumphant Phillies.

“It’s certainly down to a sprint. It’s not a marathon any longer,” James McCann claimed. “And you have obtained to set blinders on and not permit exterior sound, not allow a game like right now, snowball into nearly anything else.”

It ought to enable that the Mets headed from DC to Miami, in which the Marlins are racing the Nats to the NL East’s base, for three game titles,