Mets arent giving up hope on 2026 heres what it would take for Amazins to make miracle run into playoffs
PITTSBURGH — Francisco Lindor sometimes reflects on his 2017 season in Cleveland to remind himself that anything still can happen. From Aug.24 to Sept.
15 of that year, the team assembled a 22-game winning streak, the second-longest in American League history.It transformed an already solid club into a runaway AL Central winner. Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets.
“It just reminds you crazy things like that can happen,” Lindor said Friday before a 6-4 win over the Pirates.“It’s almost like it’s real, not this foreign concept of like it didn’t happen.” It’s that kind of attitude Lindor will carry until the Mets are mathematically eliminated from the postseason race.
The tiniest seeds of hope were planted with a three-game sweep of the Guardians that immediately followed Monday’s trade deadline.The sweep was the Mets’ third of the season and first since May. Realistically, the Mets — who moved to 51-66 and 10 ½ games behind for a National League wild card berth with Friday’s win — need a miracle.
Fangraphs on Friday computed the team’s postseason chances at 0.1 percent, and maybe that was too kind. What would it take for the Mets? Probably nothing less than a 32-13 finish if you use last season as a guide.The Reds earned the NL’s final wild card berth last year with 83 victories, winning a tiebreaker against the Mets. Luke Weaver, whom the Mets traded to the Pirates this week, was asked Friday whether his former team was capable of such a run.
Weaver pointed to the Red Sox — who appeared dead in the AL postseason race until assembling a 15-game winning streak last month.The Red Sox had a 36-game stretch in which they went 31-5 to vault them firmly into contention. “You [lose] these next three and then you go on your run,” Weaver said in the Pirates clubhouse.
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