Nothing comes easy for any team when they're jockeying for positioning in a stacked Wild Card race. The New York Mets know that their competition for the third and final Wild Card spot won't be letting up and will be putting the pressure on them until the end of Game 162. Over the past few weeks, their closest competitor has been changing, with the San Francisco Giants emerging yet tailing off and then the Arizona Diamondbacks just hanging tough.
However, the team the Mets have to be very scared of is the Cincinnati Reds . Following New York's 3-2 loss to the Washington Nationals and the Reds' 1-0 win over the playoff-bound Chicago Cubs on Sunday, the Mets have now fallen out of the Wild Card picture, with the Reds overtaking them despite having the same record (80-76) by virtue of ow