{"id":134707,"date":"2025-09-05T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/134707\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:34:07","slug":"mets-can-bury-reds-in-wild-card-race-with-bigger-prize-awaiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/134707\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets can bury Reds in wild-card race with bigger prize awaiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 The Mets\u2019 chances of missing the postseason have decreased dramatically over the past two weeks, partly because of their own play but also the competition\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>One of those hopefuls, the Reds, has responded to the playoff challenge by going 3-10 since Aug. 18, falling almost to the wayside in the National League wild-card race. It\u2019s those same Reds who face the Mets for three games beginning Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets lead the Reds by six games for the NL\u2019s third and final wild-card spot, but the surging Giants have entered the mix and stand between the two teams, four games behind Carlos Mendoza\u2019s crew.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Mets \u2014 who as of Thursday held a 94.8 percent chance of reaching the playoffs, according to Fangraphs \u2014 might not essentially end the wild-card race this weekend, regardless of how they fare on the banks of the Ohio River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 The Mets\u2019 chances of missing the postseason have decreased dramatically over the past two weeks, partly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2319,363,1189,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-134707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}