{"id":349081,"date":"2025-09-29T02:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/349081\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:40:13","slug":"mets-complete-collapse-from-first-place-to-out-of-playoffs-with-loss-to-marlins-reds-secure-nls-final-wild-card-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/349081\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets complete collapse from first place to out of playoffs with loss to Marlins; Reds secure NL’s final wild-card spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Mets lost 4-0<\/a> to the Miami Marlins in their season finale Sunday, completing a collapse from first place before the All-Star break to out of the playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mets’ loss secured a playoff berth for the Cincinnati Reds, who will go into the postseason as the NL’s final wild-card team and No. 6 seed. They’ll face the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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New York and Cincinnati went into Sunday’s regular-season finale tied in the standings. The Reds held the tiebreaker, thanks to winning four out of six games against the Mets this season.<\/p>\n

A 4-2 loss by the Reds to the Brewers opened the door for New York. But the Mets didn’t plate a run with their season on the line as the rival Marlins relished their spoiler role. Per MLB Network, Miami’s home scoreboard didn’t post the Reds-Brewers score in a cheeky bit of subterfuge against their NL East rivals.<\/p>\n

\"Pete<\/p>\n

Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor and the Mets will watch the postseason from home after a late-season collapse.<\/p>\n

(ASSOCIATED PRESS)Mets heartbreak on Alonso line drive in fourth inning<\/p>\n

The Mets had their best scoring chance in the fourth inning, with the bases loaded and All-Star slugger Pete Alonso at the plate. Alonso hit a line-drive laser to left field that looked good for extra bases.<\/p>\n

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But left fielder Javier Sanoja made a leaping grab to spoil the rally attempt and end the Mets’ half of the inning without a run.<\/p>\n

With their season on the line, the Mets brought in All-Star closer Edwin D\u00edaz in the fifth inning while facing a 4-0 deficit. He got his job done, but it didn’t matter in the face of New York’s quiet bats and a committee of five Mets pitchers who surrendered fours runs before D\u00edaz came in.<\/p>\n

The Mets had another chance in the eighth inning, with two men on and two outs. But Calvin Faucher struck out Francisco Alvarez with a diving, third-strike cutter to end the threat.<\/p>\n

The Mets didn’t get anything going in the ninth, and their season ended on a Francisco Lindor double-play ground ball.<\/p>\n

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“I take responsibility,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said<\/a> of the collapse after Sunday’s loss. “I’m the manager. It starts with me. I’ve got to take a long look here, how I need to get better.”<\/p>\n

[Get more New York news: Mets team feed<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Alonso announces he’s opting out<\/p>\n

Alonso told reporters after the Mets’ loss that he intends to opt out of the remaining one year and $24 million on his contract to re-test free agency in the offseason.<\/p>\n

From best MLB record to out of the playoffs<\/p>\n

The Mets were in first place and had the best record in baseball on June 12, at 45-24. From there, they lost seven straight and 10 of their next 11 games.<\/p>\n

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They went on to post seven- and eight-game losing streaks in the second half of the season and limped down the stretch, with a 38-55 finish, ceding control of the NL East to the Phillies and allowing the Reds to catch and ultimately overtake them for the final NL wild-card berth. The Cubs and Padres had long since passed the Mets to secure the other two NL wild-card spots before Sunday’s games.<\/p>\n

As the No. 6 seed in the NL playoffs, the Reds will be on the road against the No. 3 seed Dodgers in Los Angeles in the wild-card round. The No. 4 seed Cubs will host the No. 5 Padres. The top-seeded Brewers and No. 2 seed Phillies have a bye into the divisional round.<\/p>\n

The Mets will watch from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets lost 4-0 to the Miami Marlins in their season finale Sunday, completing a collapse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,136,1111,50,161,1087,1347,227,4289,774,57,58,61,7439,43,74,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-349081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-calvin-faucher","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-edwin-diaz","14":"tag-francisco-alvarez","15":"tag-francisco-lindor","16":"tag-javier-sanoja","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-miami-marlins","20":"tag-new-york-mets","21":"tag-nl-east","22":"tag-padres","23":"tag-pete-alonso","24":"tag-phillies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115285277251534375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349081","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=349081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}