Over the course of any 162-game season, there are going to be games that you win where you should have lost, and games that you lost that you should have won. That’s just the nature of the beast, and those two inevitabilities typically tend to balance each other out in a baseball season.

The 2025 Mets missed the postseason by one game. They finished tied with the Reds and, because they lost the season series 4-2, were left standing outside when the proverbial game of musical chairs ended. As a result, they were left to ponder what went wrong. It’s incredibly rare to be able to say one specific game could have made the difference, but with these Mets, it’s increasingly easy to point to a few games where, had the result flipped, they would have been in the playoffs.

It’s especially glaring

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