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CINCINNATI — Brandon Sproat was excellent, displaying the kind of upside that the Mets can dream on for both the rest of this season and the future.

Maybe one day in the coming weeks or coming seasons he can be the type of front-line arm that the Reds used Sunday to throttle the Mets’ offense.

Sproat was promising but Hunter Greene was all but perfect in besting the debuting rookie and bulldozing a Mets lineup that finished with three hits in a 3-2 Reds victory that narrowed the playoff picture.

The Mets (76-67) lost the series and ground in the wild-card chase, four games ahead of Cincinnati and 3

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