NEW YORK – As the window to secure the division narrowed and finally slammed shut, sending the New York Mets to the wild card, the team was repeatedly asked about the mounting pressure. The Mets' success all summer only added to the weight — squeezing the expectations set by a 101-win season into a three-game series invites even more scrutiny. Forced to say something — just as all teams do when they claim to like feeling their backs against the wall — the Mets generally said they would relish the pressure. Well, if you even want to call it that. The trick is to not let it affect you, treat it like any other game. Stakes? What stakes? You think there's psychological turmoil here?
National League Wild Card Series: San Diego Padres v. New York Mets
He was answering questions about a start that would necessarily be winner-take-all and would not necessarily take place at all. The Mets'night set the stage for the weekend. Jacob deGrom, whom they had hoped to have available for Game 1 of the division series if they could complete a two-game sweep, would start Saturday night. He was the Big Gun that they were forced to break out to save the season, stave off disaster, set the team back on a winning path.
“Today we played very Mets-like,” Lindor said postgame. “We put the ball in play. We run the bases right. We play good defense. We pitch. We stay together, and we win together.” Their stalwart over six months will start Sunday, when a win would mean they’d overcome the self-inflicted hurdle of having to go through the wild-card round, and a loss would throw the entire season under a microscope as fans combed through the failures for a scapegoat.“There isn't a harder city in our country to play a sport,” Bassitt said. “New York is an absolute gauntlet every night.
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