The New York Mets may be saying publicly that they're not getting rattled by the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies are running away with the NL East. But the NL East title is not what they should be concerned about anyway. The Mets have fallen into a slump, winning just three of their 10 games in the calendar month of September and losing six straight — with the Phillies sending them spiraling deeper into their misery with the Mets taking a 6-4 defeat on Thursday night.

It would be one thing if the Mets' defeats didn't matter with regards to their playoff standing. But the defeats they've been suffering as of late have put their postseason spot in peril ; the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants are both just 1.5 games back of them in the win-loss column with 15 games to go in N

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