Well, we’re here. We’re in September. For baseball, that means the home stretch. Four weeks to glory. Four weeks to misery. Four weeks to turn narratives upside down, if you have it in you.
We have a couple of baseball teams who are in the middle of it. The Yankees are more in it, sure, because even though they seem to make their fans roll their eyes an awful lot, they’re still comfortably in playoff position. But the Mets have a puncher’s chance, too. Now all they have to do is punch.
We celebrate champions eternally, and near-champs, and when we do, we mostly revel in what happens in October. What we sometimes forget is just how thrilling a real September Push can be.
Mets were 69-66 after a loss in Sept. 2, 3 ¹/₂ games out of the last wild-card. Then they went 18-9 down the stretch to sneak past the Cardinals and Giants into the top wild card.Their push actually started a few days early. They were 54-59 on the morning of Aug. 29, 4 ¹/₂ games out of the wild card then went 25-6 the rest of the way to end a 14-year playoff drought.The Yankees had chopped their 14-game deficit in half by Aug. 23, but that still left them seven full games behind.
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