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Mets Lose Control of Wild Card

If the New York Mets miss the playoffs in 2025, Washington's Jacob Young is going to enter the pantheon of Mets killers who kept New York from the postseason. 

Young, a little known center fielder for the Nats who is hitting .235 on the year with one homer, had two of the biggest defensive plays of the season when he robbed the Mets of extra bases not just once, but twice on Sunday in a 3-2 Washington victory. 


The result has put the Mets out of the playoff picture, as the Cincinnati Reds have the hold on the final wild card slot based on head-to-head record vs. the Mets. 

Young made an acrobatic catch on a Brett Baty fly ball in the fifth inning that the outfielder caught, then nearly lost as the ball bounced out of his glove. As luck would have it, Young kicked the ball up in the air with his foot, and then caught it again for the out! 

Finally in the ninth inning Young brought back what would have been a home run off the bat of Francisco Alvarez. 

The Mets now must fiind a way to win more games this week than Cincinnati or risk missing out on the playoffs in the same year they dolled out a $765 million contract to Juan Soto, and had three of the best players in the game today (Soto, Francisco Lindor, and Pete Alonso) in their lineup. What a mess of a season this has turned out to be for the Mets.  

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