Three times in the past 18 years, the Mets have lost a playoff spot in the final game of the regular season. All three of these losses came against the Marlins, but the similarities don’t end there either. In each of those series, the Mets won the penultimate game of the season in a shut-out fashion. Two of those three losses were one-hitters, and the other was a three-hitter. All three collapses seemed to be (potentially) fended off by a stellar pitching performance, only to have the next day not go the Mets’ way.

2007

The 2007 collapse is often thought of as the worst of the Mets’ terrible Septembers. The Mets were famously seven games up in the division with 17 games left to play, and the Mets wound up missing the playoffs by just one game. However, in the penultimate game of the seas

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