Mets flounder in loss to Marlins, ending their 2025 season

The Mets’ months-long collapse is complete.

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What is the story about?

The Mets only have themselves to blame. Having peaked at 21 games over .500 early in the season, the team saw its 2025 campaign come to an end this afternoon in a 4-0 loss to the Marlins in Miami. Had they won, they would be on their way to Los Angeles for the Wild Card round of the playoffs, as the Brewers gave the Mets the help they needed with a win over the Reds.

While Sean Manaea made the start for the Mets, Carlos Mendoza only used him for five outs and went to the bullpen when Manaea had runners

on first and second with two outs in the bottom of the second. Huascar Brazobán got the out there to keep the game scoreless, but he didn’t stay in the game long, either, as he got two outs in the bottom of the third before the Mets turned to Brooks Raley. That worked for getting through the third inning, but the plan unraveled in the fourth, as Raley, Ryne Stanek, and Tyler Rogers combined to give up four runs.

In the top of the fifth, the Mets threatened to get right back in the game, loading the bases with two outs for Pete Alonso, who absolutely smoked a line drive to left field—116 miles per hour off the bat—only to see it caught for the final out of the inning.

And while the Mets didn’t turn to him to stop the bleeding in the fourth, Edwin Díaz was called upon to start the fifth inning and went two scoreless. Ryan Helsley followed up with a scoreless seventh, and Gregory Soto did the same, albeit with some difficulty, in the eighth.

Almost every pitching decision along the way was a head-scratcher at best, but the Mets’ inability to score runs really made it a moot point. The fact that the season came to an end with a series loss to a non-contending team only seems fitting, as the 2025 Mets found ways to lose to those teams all too often this season. It’ll be a long winter.

Big Mets winner: lol
Big Mets loser: Ryne Stanek, -21.2% WPA
Mets pitchers: -14.6% WPA
Mets hitters: -35.4% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Huascar Brazobán induces a ground out in the second, +4.5% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Eric Wagaman hits a run-scoring double in the fourth, -14.1% WPA