The Mets dropped yet another close game to a team they are currently chasing in the playoff race, but as they have all season, the team is trying to maintain optimism, even as their playoff hopes quickly fade.
Now, with just two weeks to go in the season and a microscopic chance at ending the franchise's playoff drought, New York's hopes will have to rely on the borderline supernatural.
"Crazy things have happened in the past," Brandon Nimmo said. "They've made movies about it. It can happen. That's the mindset we take into it."
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Six games out of a Wild Card spot and 5.5 back of the division, New York isn't quite mathematically eliminated yet, but will need a cinematic ending to reach the postseason for the first time since 2016.
But as Nimmo said, such comebacks have happened before.
"I guess the one that sticks to the top of the head and comes out right away is "Moneyball," where they end up winning 20 in a row, maybe more than that," Nimmo said. "These are the times they make documentaries about, the 30 for 30s, all those inspirational sports shows that you see, that make sports so great. When everybody counted them out, they ended up coming through."
The Mets don't even have 20 games left on the schedule to put together such a streak, but they still could suddenly heat up and make a push for October. They will likely need some help along the way, and it would take a drastic improvement on multiple fronts in their own end, as the team has struggled badly throughout the second half of the season, but Nimmo won't give up hope until the math confirms there is no hope left to be had.
"That's one of the beautiful things about sports and one of the things I love is that it's never over until it's over," Nimmo said. "So we'll keep fighting."
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