When the regular season began, Major League Baseball likely envisioned that its showcase series in London would feature two teams that were slightly closer in the standings than the Mets (27-35) and Phillies (44-19) are right now.
While projections had the Phillies finishing ahead of the Mets, Philadelphia has gone above and beyond and currently owns the second-best record in baseball and the best record in the National League. And the Mets weren’t projected to be one of the elite teams in baseball, but they’ve come up short of their .500-ish projection so far and have quite a bit of work to do to get back into any kind of playoff mix.