{"id":33691,"date":"2025-05-17T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/33691\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T11:19:10","slug":"mets-braves-doubleheader-braves-join-mets-in-postseason-with-game-2-win-diamondbacks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/33691\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets-Braves doubleheader: Braves join Mets in postseason with Game 2 win, Diamondbacks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets and Atlanta Braves are both in the MLB playoffs. The Mets punched their ticket with <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mets-top-braves-8-7-in-first-game-of-doubleheader-to-clinch-nl-playoff-berth-braves-against-the-wall-201031052.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:a wild 8-7 win over the Atlanta Braves in Game 1;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a wild 8-7 win over the Atlanta Braves in Game 1<\/a> of Monday&#8217;s doubleheader.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves followed up <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/new-york-mets-atlanta-braves-440930315\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:with a 3-0 win in Game 2;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with a 3-0 win in Game 2 <\/a>to secure their place in the postseason. That means that the reigning NL champion Arizona Diamondbacks are out of the playoffs. The Diamondbacks needed one of the Braves or Mets to get swept on Sunday to leapfrog them for baseball\u2019s final postseason berth.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The two games played Monday were postponed last week because of Hurricane Helene, adding some chaos to the MLB playoff picture ahead of the start of the wild-card series on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves secured the No. 5 seed with Monday\u2019s win and will travel to play the No. 4 seed San Diego Padres in the wild-card round. The No. 6 seed Mets will travel to face the No. 3 seed Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets and Atlanta Braves are both in the MLB playoffs. The Mets punched their ticket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[22,46,5,2328,2304,59,4,12551,2305,2303,61,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-33691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","12":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","13":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-mlb-playoff-picture","16":"tag-mlb-playoffs","17":"tag-mlb-postseason","18":"tag-new-york-mets","19":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114522905831928182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691","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=33691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}