After a season of turmoil and despair, the Mets entered Saturday afternoon needing both a win against the Marlins and for the Reds to lose at least one of the next two games against the Brewers. We’ll have to wait and see for the latter, but after the Amazins failed to get the job done in Miami last night, they turned around and got one of their strongest team pitching performances of the year to secure a critical 5-0 victory to ensure that they would not be eliminated from postseason contention on this day.

Just like in last night’s game, the Mets scored early today. Francisco Lindor led off the game with a walk against Eury Pérez, and he then advanced to second on a wild pitch. With one out, Pete Alonso then doubled to left field to score the first run of the game and put the Mets in pr

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