“Just wait until September,” Mets fans have been telling themselves for most of the 2022 season. While the Braves have been nipping at their heels for the past few months, it was easy to look at the schedule in September—when the Mets would almost exclusively be facing the worst teams that baseball has to offer—and come to the conclusion that if they just maintained a lead in the division heading into September, they’d be able to feast on the bad teams and lock up their first NL East title since 2015.
Well, the thing is, that plan only works if they actually take care of business against these aforementioned bad teams.