Mets’ postseason race can still be thrilling even if it’s not an old-school pennant sprint

New York Post - 17/09
For a season in which there’s relatively little drama anywhere else, there’s this intriguing four-teams-for-three-spots race brewing in the NL.

Some days, it’s still hard to get used to the New Order of a baseball pennant race. The Mets bopped the Phillies in the first game of a three-game series last weekend in Citizens Bank Park. That nudged the Mets to within seven games of the Phils, with 15 to go. Then they lost bookend heartbreakers Saturday and Sunday. Nine out, 13 to play.

In the baseball arithmetic that prevailed for a hundred years, that translated to one word: over.

And yes, we have had wild card baseball in our lives for almost 30 years now. We are used to second-place teams making a run. We have had enough years now of three-wild-cards-get-in to the poi...
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