{"id":70068,"date":"2020-09-18T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-thrilling-win-shows-mlb-expanded-playoffs-here-to-stay\/"},"modified":"2020-09-18T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:38:37","slug":"mets-thrilling-win-shows-mlb-expanded-playoffs-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-thrilling-win-shows-mlb-expanded-playoffs-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets’ thrilling win shows MLB expanded playoffs here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mets’ thrilling win shows MLB expanded playoffs here to stay<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n It\u2019s going to work.<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball is going to keep the 16-team postseason that emanated from the pandemic shutdown, and you\u2019re going to like it.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t believe me? Then tell me you watched the Mets\u2019 insane, 10-6 victory over the Phillies Thursday night at Citizens Bank Park and didn\u2019t get roped in by the intensity, the drama, the strategy \u2014 over a team that leapt from 12th place to 11th place in the National League.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s big time for us,\u201d said Seth Lugo, whose terrible start (six runs in 1\u200a\u00b2\/\u2083 innings) made his teammates\u2019 offensive heroics necessary. \u201cThat\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting down to the nitty gritty, so every win is important. Every game<\/a> is important. Every pitch is important,\u201d said Brandon Nimmo, who delivered the game-winning, ninth-inning homer off Brandon Workman and totaled three RBIs. \u201cThat makes this kind of baseball really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

No doubt, this contest was so much fun that you put up with the 4 hours and 12 minutes it required to finish it. It was September baseball at its near-finest, two exhausted clubs going at it and seeing who could stay up longer.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Nimmo and Michael Conforto celebrate after the Mets\u2019 10-6 win over the Phillies.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Mets (23-27) did because they won the battle of the bullpens \u2014 this Phillies relief corps surely is taking years off Joe Girardi\u2019s life \u2014 and that allowed them to pull within 1\u200a\u00b9\/\u2082 games of Philadelphia (24-25) with the Cardinals (22-24) and Brewers (23-26) presenting two more hurdles. Yes, we are talking about a bushel full of mediocre ball clubs \u2014 in a normal campaign, the Mets would own a 62-73 record at this juncture, and that doesn\u2019t quite scream \u201cPennant race!\u201d now does it?<\/p>\n

Yet you won\u2019t be able to resist it if it\u2019s relevant, and the only forces powerful enough to stand in the way of its relevance, to say, \u201cCome on, now, you can\u2019t have more than half the league emerging from the beautiful marathon that is our regular season to keep going in October!\u201d are the players and owners. With zero guarantees that ballparks will be able to fill up with paying customers in 2021, do you really think the game\u2019s stewards and participants can claim the moral high ground and pass on so many extra millions of dollars?<\/p>\n

So you might as well strap in, get used to it and enjoy. App<\/a>reciate that the Mets won consecutive games in which their two best starting pitchers, Jacob deGrom and Lugo, lasted a total of 3\u200a\u00b2\/\u2083 innings as the Mets fell behind by four and three runs, respectively, only to claw back. That the typically humble Nimmo \u2014 Sandy Alderson\u2019s very first draft pick in 2011, who didn\u2019t make it to the big leagues until 2016 \u2014 tied the game with a two-run trip<\/a>le in the sixth inning, then crushed his game-winning shot to start the ninth, and actually admired the 387-foot blast (with an impressive 35-degree launch angle) before trotting around the bases.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s the slowest he\u2019s come out of the box in his career,\u201d Luis Rojas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not normal me,\u201d Nimmo agreed. \u201cThis was a different moment.\u201d<\/p>\n