For all intents and functions, the Mets’ postseason begins Tuesday night time — when Clay Holmes toes the Citi Subject rubber and begins his 152nd inning of pitching in 2025, additional shattering his earlier career-high of 70.
Pete Alonso’s walk-off heroics on Sunday, mixed with Monday night time’s outcomes, offers the Mets a 1 ½-game lead over the Diamondbacks and two-game leads on the Giants and Reds for the ultimate Nationwide League wild-card spot.
Starting Tuesday, the Mets will play 12 video games over 13 days and dash all the way in which to their Sept. 28 finale in opposition to the Marlins. Maybe the Mets will know their playoff destiny earlier than then. Maybe they’ll win sufficient — or, primarily based on how the final 4 months have gone, lose sufficient — to get a solution to the urgent query of whether or not they’ll preserve enjoying into October.
Quite a bit can occur over two weeks of baseball within the remaining stretch of the marathon. They simply weren’t purported to be on this place within the first place.
