PHILADELPHIA — Here are a few dire but undeniable facts about the Mets right now:

Kodai Senga and Sean Manaea have been ineffective, with the former being banished to Triple-A Syracuse. Their bats have gone completely silent. They can’t seem to win on the road. And they haven’t won a game this season when trailing after the eighth inning.

Somehow, they still have claw marks on the third and final wild-card spot, but after being crushed by the Phillies, 9-3, at Citizens Bank Park Tuesday, that, too, increasingly is in question.

With their fourth straight loss, they dropped a nearly insurmountable nine games behind the Phillies for the NL East lead with 17 to play. The red-hot Giants took the field for their late game in San Francisco just 2 1⁄2 games behind them for that final spot.

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