The Mets needed to win this game, point blank, period.

Due to some of the worst baseball you have ever seen over the last few months, the Mets find themselves in a dogfight with the Cincinnati Reds for the final playoff spot in the National League. The Reds own the tiebreaker over the Mets, so they need to maintain a one game lead for that aforementioned playoff spot, and everyone woke up this morning with that being true — until this afternoon.

The Reds beat the Pirates 2-1 at roughly 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, on a game saving Noelvi Marte home run robbery, because of course. So, in order to maintain their playoff spot, and the ability to control their own destiny going into the final three games of the 2025 regular season in Miami, they needed to win this game.

Well, they did.

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