Mets clinch playoff spot on Reds’ home field 10-2

Duda crushed it to right for his first career grand slam.

The only postseason spot still up for grabs in the National League is the West title.

The Mets are the fourth NL team to clinch a playoff berth, joining the Cardinals, Cubs and Pirates. It’s how the team plans to use it’s golden boy, the aforementioned Matt Harvey.

Garcia (10-5) allowed a run on seven hits, retiring 10 in a row at one point.

The Reds have no magic number. Andre Ethier homered for the Dodgers.

As it turned out, Washington went into extra innings and the Mets got to earn it on their own. Outfielder Curtis Granderson has the most home runs on the roster with 23.

Justin Miller (3-2) pitched the top of the ninth for the win.

The Mets hoped to regroup on the road after going 3-6 on their first losing homestand of the season.

The Mets, for the first time since 2006, were NL East champions.

The Mets are hitting.305 and averaging 8.3 runs with 43 homers while winning 18 of 20 away from home, and their.625 winning percentage (25-15) all-time at Great American Ballpark is the highest among NL teams. Matz allows a homer to the first batter he faces but rebounds to complete a dominant outing. Brandon Phillips is 3-for-9 (.333) with two doubles. Harvey gave up a pair of runs in 6 2-3 innings. Despite giving up five runs in five innings, he maintained his AL ERA lead at 2.45.

“It’s a long time coming”, Wright said. “At the end of the day, the players did it themselves”. Miami outhit Atlanta 9-5 in this one.

A late rally left the New York Mets oh-so-close to their first playoff appearance in nine years.

Parker hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the eighth for his third home run.

The next year, they faded down the stretch again.

Murphy’s two-out triple off left-hander Manny Parra (1-2) started a three-run rally in the seventh. Toronto’s three errors matched a season high. Harvey is 5-0 in his past 10 starts.

The game ended when Mookie Betts robbed Chris Davis of what would have been his 44th homer of the season with a man on. Duda’s 23rd homer made it 4-0 an inning later and extended the Mets’ club-record streak of at least three runs in each of their last 29 road games.

Frank Sinatra, more famous for a certain New York song, also once sang that “Love Is Better the Second Time Around”. Does he pitch the rest of the season, risking the chance of destroying his career and millions of dollars to fight for a World Series? Two walks and a single loaded the bases with two outs. Entering Saturday, he’s thrown 12 pitches or fewer in an inning 73 times – an average of 2.6 such innings per start. He aggravated the injury while swinging on Friday night and left the game. It’s a delicate balancing act and one where there’s no right answer since every pitcher’s situation is different.

“Tonight was the best start he’s had”, manager Terry Collins said.

Michael Morse put Pittsburgh ahead 2-1 with an RBI single off Lester in the seventh.

Harvey gave up nine hits, but allowed zero walks and struck out six.