PHILADELPHIA -- The demolition of the 2025 Mets’ season is occurring at an almost unfathomable pace. The Mets lost their sixth consecutive game on Thursday, 6-4 to the Phillies, blowing a four-run lead to endure a four-game series sweep against their National League East rivals. Their cushion in the Wild Card race , which stood at five games as recently as Labor Day Weekend, is down to 1 1/2.

Give the Mets credit: they continue to find new and inventive ways to lose. On this night, five of their first six batters reached base safely against Jesús Luzardo, with four of them scoring.

The Mets did not record another baserunner the rest of the night.

Along the way, the Phillies roared back on Otto Kemp’s two-run homer off David Peterson in the fourth inning, Bryce Harper’s two-run doubl

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