The Mets cannot overcome the poor second half of the season, the playoffs are lost with the loss of the season in Miami

Miami (AP)-New York Mets entered Sunday’s regular season against the Miami Marlins with a unique goal: victory.

That was the only thing that the manager’s fading team Carlos Mendoza could still control in his attempt to reach the postseason. But those hopes dissipated in a decisive entry.

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New York could not exceed a quarter of four Marlins races, and the Mets were eliminated from the playoff field with a 4-0 defeat.

The METS lost the postseason a year after arriving at the National League Championship series and after maintaining the best record in the largest on June 12, an impressive collapse for the club full of stars with a payroll of $ 322.6 million large leagues on the opening day.

The loss of New York meant that Cincinnati’s Reds obtained the last place on the wild card of the National League despite falling to the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 on Sunday.

The Reds and Mets entered the day with the same record, but because Cincinnati was the owner of the tiebreaker in front of the head, the Reds won four of the six meetings with New York this season, they go to the playoffs for the first time since the 2020 season they rushed the pandemic.

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Mendoza had been firm during the series in Miami that the Mets put themselves in that position with their poor second half of the regular season.

New York had the best record in the Major with 45-24, a maximum of season 21 more than .500, after beating Washington 4-3 at home on June 12.

But the Kodai Senga starter was injured the hamstrings in that game, which seemed to mark a turning point in the Mets season. They lost their next seven games and 10 of the next 11. Unable to overcome a series of launch problems, the rest of the road was 38-55.

The collapse was a result too familiar for many Mets fans, who endured similar finals in 2007 and 2008.

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In 2007, New York failed to have an advantage of the seven games division with 17 remaining games in the season, and in 2008, they wasted an advantage of 3 1/2 games with 17 remaining games. His playoff destination was also taken to the last game of the season, when the defeats against the Marlins finished their hopes.

It was also an investment of last season, when the METS entered the postseason as a bunning in a tiebreaker in front of the Arizona diamondbacks. New York then eliminated Milwaukee from the playoffs with an exciting return in the decisive game 3 of his NL Wild Card series.

Before a crowd sold on Sunday of 34,660 that included Ivanka Trump and many New York fans, the Mets were in a position to set up a return in the fifth when they loaded the bases with two outs on three walks. But the toletero Pete Alonso aligned to the left field, and that was the best threat in New York.

With the runners in the first and second in the eighth, Francisco Alvarez launched to finish the entrance and broke the bat on his knee with frustration, since many fans of the Mets went to the exits.

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