{"id":332505,"date":"2025-09-22T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/332505\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:08:11","slug":"mets-come-up-short-in-loss-to-nationals-lose-hold-of-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/332505\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets come up short in loss to Nationals, lose hold of playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Mets have spent the vast majority of the 2025 season in one of the six playoff spots in the National League, but thanks to their 3-2 loss to the Nationals this afternoon and a win by the Reds, that is no longer the case.<br \/>Sean Manaea wasn\u2019t great as he played the role of starter in the Mets\u2019 second piggyback game. He gave up three runs in three innings, albeit with some shoddy defense behind him. And that proved to be too much for the Mets\u2019 lineup in a must-win game that felt a little off pretty much throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Clay Holmes and the Mets\u2019 bullpen didn\u2019t allow any other runs the rest of the way. But one run in each of the third and sixth innings was all the Mets had in them. If you\u2019re looking for signs that this just might not be the team\u2019s year, watch the highlights of Francisco Lindor\u2019s smoked line drive that wound up a double play or both of the absurd catches made against them by the Nationals\u2019 center fielder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets have spent the vast majority of the 2025 season in one of the six playoff spots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,39326],"class_list":{"0":"post-332505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets-scores-recaps"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115245751126938698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}