The New York Mets and Atlanta Braves break up their weather-delayed double-header to seal their locations in Main League Baseball’s playoffs on Monday.
The Mets booked a wild card sequence conflict towards the Milwaukee Brewers after profitable an exciting opening sport at Atlanta’s Truist Park 8-7.
The Braves, needing to win the second sport of the double-header to affix the Mets within the playoffs, then got here via with a nervy 3-0 triumph.
The Braves’ victory noticed them clinch the fifth seed within the Nationwide League playoffs, sending them right into a best-of-three sequence towards the fourth-seeded San Diego Padres beginning on Tuesday.
The Arizona Diamondbacks — who may have superior if the Mets or Braves had received each of Monday’s video games in Atlanta — at the moment are eradicated from postseason rivalry.
Whereas the remainder of baseball’s common season wrapped up on Sunday, the playoff destiny of the Braves, Mets and Diamondbacks had been left hanging within the steadiness as a consequence of Hurricane Helene.
With the lethal storm battering the area over the weekend, the ultimate Mets-Braves video games of the season had been postponed 24 hours.
The Mets clinched their playoff spot in thrilling trend within the first of Monday’s video games in Atlanta, Francisco Lindor crushing a two-run homer within the high of the ninth inning to place New York forward 8-7.
Lindor’s bomb was the ultimate act of a jaw-dropping late rally which noticed New York recuperate from 3-0 down at first of the eighth inning to reel off six runs to take the lead.
However Atlanta yanked again the initiative within the backside of the inning. Jarred Kelenic singled to permit Eli White to cross dwelling plate after which Ozzie Albies drove in three runs after doubling with a line drive to left area.
That left Atlanta 7-6 up heading into the ninth, however Lindor’s blast to center-field put the Mets again in entrance to punch their playoff ticket.
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