How about extra innings?
Edit: Too late - Mets win 8-7. Crazy last two innings
I'm surrounded by die hard Mets fans atm. I can only imagine this is what we looked like in 2007. It's bedlam.
Do we want the Braves or D'Backs? Metss are clearly saving Severino for tomorrow at this point.
The Braves are starting Grant Holmes in the 2nd game. I guess they will try to hold Sale back for tomorrow night, instead of using him to clinch today against the Mets' pitchers that won't be on the postseason roster.
Mets really have no motive to win here. Losing makes them the 6th seed and on their way to Milwaukee with a familar foe and easier travel awaiting them if they take the series. Win and they have to go to San Diego and then potentially fly across the country twice in a long NLCS.
Sale is hurt, he might not even be able to go tomorrow. Or so they are saying anyway.
40 pitches for Diaz. Mets have their 27th man (Lucchesi) as the starter for game 2. We lit him up for 5 runs in his only other start. They'll have him and all their bad relievers so it will be hard for the Braves to blow this.....
If Sale can't go tomorrow, the Braves are going to be in a tough spot, even if they do win this one. Their options would be a bullpen game the day after a doubleheader, or Max Fried on short rest.
Lopez coming in for the Braves in the 7th to protect a 1-0 lead after going 6 off the IL on Saturday.
I haven't been home for this one, has it felt like the Mets were trying to give it a go or were Braves just flat for a long while?
5% win prob for Mets now.
Mets announcers did note that Nimmo wasn't hustling like usual on a DP grounder, and the Mets didn't challenge it even though it was close.
Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker told reporters he does not expect National League Cy Young favorite Chris Sale, who was scratched today with back spasms, to pitch in their wild card series against San Diego. Massive loss for the Braves, whose rotation is now in flux.
— Jeff Passan ( @JeffPassan ) September 30, 2024
ESPN standings have the Braves with a 57.5% chance to make the playoffs. Arizona at 42.5%. Guess we're waiting for them to count the mail in votes or something.
The Braves threw the first game knowing the Mets would ease up in the second game, thus they get to be the hotter team going into the postseason.
It's official. Braves win game 2 3-0 so they and the Mets are both in the postseason.
I think it is worth noting that 89 wins were needed to get into the NL postseason, and even that number wasn't good enough for AZ. If memory serves, at the start of the season many posters thought 87 wins would guarantee a playoff berth in the NL.
