The Mets again were pushed around and bowled over by the Nationals on Tuesday night. When they fell to the ground though -- following a furious ninth-inning rally -- they found they had fallen closer to the division championship they had seemed intent to avoid. Through no doing of their own, they walked from their dugout to their clubhouse with their clinching number reduced to four but with more troubling evidence of their startling September inadequacy.
Only because the second-place Phillies had lost to the Braves did the first-place Mets' exasperating 10-9 loss not reduce the division lead to one game. That much -- and little else -- could the Mets and their fans embrace on this all-too-familiar evening. For the fourth time in five games in nine days, the Mets had lost to a lesser team. For the fourth time, they had been steamrolled by the team with the least productive offense in the game. Continue
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