Hard as it must be for the Citi Field faithful to accept the fact the Mets won 101 games, the second-most wins in their history, and still wound up as a wild card, there is this dose of hard reality: The Braves were simply a better team.
Interestingly, when all the baseball pundits were making their World Series predictions both before the season and during it, they never mentioned the Braves, even though they are the defending world champions. If not the Dodgers representing the National League, they said, then definitely the Mets on the strength of Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom, their two top-of-the-rotation “infallibles.