Centerfield

Well. We get one shot at this.

I can't believe how miserable this season has been. I think it's because of the third WC spot. Without it we would have been comfortably looking to 2026 for a while now.

I literally never want to see Carlos Mendoza again. I know it's not all his fault, but he has not done a thing to stop this bleeding. Every night it's just hoping everyone else loses.

Stepped away for a while and come back to see this. Brutal. Did we really go to Soto? That literally never works.

Huge inning for Sproat. Gets them back in the dugout. Top of the lineup coming up.

Was that their claim? He disappeared over the wall. I thought maybe the challenge was that he threw the ball in before falling into the stands. Which was also clearly not the case.

Mathematicians! With the DBacks losing our odds must be better now, yes?

Ok Edwin. Be good Edwin.

Hate the body language that inning. A ball not run out, a dropped strike 3 ignored.

The Reds' starting pitching is the real deal. Even beyond Hunter Greene, they get a well pitched game seemingly every night.

A sweep was going to be a tall order. Mets are just going to have to win themselves.

What's done is done. Let's score 8.

If Mendoza were smart he'd pitch McLean every day.

And that's why you play Baty no matter what hand the pitcher throws with.

We survive the third inning.

Reds and Pirates underway. 0-0 in the 2nd inning. If you had told me before the series that the Pirates would take 2 of 3 I would have been thrilled. But dammit that's thinking small! Go Bucs!!!

Maybe what went wrong in 2025 is as simple as this. Mets Team ERA by Month: March: 2.38 (4th) Record: 2-2 April: 2.68 (2nd) Record: 19-8 May: 3.08 (3rd) Record: 15-12 June: 4.80 (27th) Record: 12-15 July: 3.99 (12th) Record: 14-10 August: 4.97 (25th) Record: 11-17 September: 5.14 (26th) Record: 8-13 I hope the Mets are able to figure out how the pitching could implode to this level. Senga, Peterson and Manaea were all #2 level starters. All three are now unpitchable. Frankie Montas had the worst season of his career. Yes, it's on the players, it always is. But when an entire staff implodes, you have to look at the organization.

Imanaga has pitched to a 4.91 ERA in September. He's gone 5 innings, 3ER in his last two. So he's hittable. Of course, he's left-handed, so I guess you never know. This will be the last time this season the Mets have the pitching advantage.

Awful.

You guys are mathin at a level that makes my head hurt. Simpler math. 0-0, through 3.

The West divisions in this proposal here are across three time zones (and in most every other proposal, to be fair). It’s part of why we know Manfred is full of it when he talks about travel. There aren’t enough teams in the Pacific/Mountain time zones, so there are always going to be theee-time-zone divisions. Maybe if they award expansion franchises to both Portland and Salt Lake City that changes the balance enough, but as Ben Grimm flagged, it seems likely that Raleigh/Charlotte/Nashville gets one of the new teams. So yes, sloppy wording. All WC and DS are played as close to your time zone as possible, and against teams within your division. My proposal is designed to: (a) satisfy Manfred's gripes about a Dodgers-Mets Wild Card Series ( maintain the leagues and traditional rivalries © restore meaning to division titles Manfred can certainly scrap the AL/NL and go completely geographically. But the only round of playoffs that would affect is the LCS. And you figure the LCS is important enough that fans would watch anyway. That small bump in viewership hardly seems worth it to scrap 150 years of tradition. But what the hell do I know.

I’ve been unimpressed with Siri overall, but it’s only been 36 plate appearances, and he’s shown elite speed and plays good defense. Seems hasty to determine that he needs to go. He is gone.

Tommy Edman two out drives home the go ahead run. Arizona fails to score bottom 11. Push day all around.

Our buddy James McCann leaves them loaded. On to the 11th.

Dodgers fail to score the Manfred man in the top of the 10th. Ohtani Betts and Freeman fail to get it done. Betts hit a single but the runner is thrown out at home. Brutal.