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Jonah Tong could not escape an unrelenting tailspin.

Can the Mets?

A season that has been spiraling might have reached its roughest moment Friday, when Tong went from a fan favorite to hearing boos in 19 minutes that tanked a game and added a bit more weight to a Mets campaign that is tanking.

The Mets — who were baseball’s best team in mid-June and as recently as Sept. 2 held a five-game wild-card lead — are imploding, their seventh consecutive loss arguably the ugliest of the stretch yet.

Tong did not survive the first inning. Jeff McNeil was tossed in the fourth. What might have been a night

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