CINCINNATI - Terry Collins' lone experience in the postseason came in 1992 with the Pirates, a club that saved its best baseball for the end of the regular season.
Collins, the bullpen coach at the time, watched the Pirates close out the year with a 22-10 mark. But it did them little good against the Braves, who won Game 7 of the NLCS on Sid Bream's iconic mad dash to home plate.
"I have not been in the postseason so I don't know what the effect [is] of how the team is playing at the end of the year," Collins said Thursday as he discussed the Mets' backslide toward October.