MIAMI -- As a hotbed of New York transplants, South Florida tends to draw more than its share of Mets fans when the team comes to loanDepot park. Friday evening, with nothing less than a trip to the postseason on the line, those natives of Queens and Manhattan and Westchester and New Jersey showed up in droves.

They spent much of the night booing the team they had come to see.

Once again, the Mets took an early lead only to go silent in the middle innings, ultimately losing their advantage on the Marlins’ six-run rally in the fifth. That contained all the hallmarks of this stretch run for the Mets: subpar pitching, defensive issues, mental mistakes and the like. And it kept alive the possibility that the Mets could miss the playoffs altogether.

Their 6-2 loss gave the Reds -- playing

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