CHICAGO — Carlos Mendoza has a tough line to walk this week. With four games left to play and few reliable pitchers, the Mets manager has to piece together 27 outs on a nightly basis, while still taking into consideration the next day’s game. But it’s nearly impossible to manage that, so Mendoza has taken to managing every game this week as if it’s Game 7 of the World Series.

“I feel a little bit better today than I felt yesterday,” Mendoza said Thursday at Wrigley Field ahead of the rubber match against the Chicago Cubs. “To be honest with you, I think the biggest thing is the quality [of pitches] because we’ve asked a lot of these guys. There’s a few guys that are available today that I didn’t have yesterday, but again, with how much we’ve used them, that’s kind of like the concerning

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