Mets Morning News: Reds To Metsies: Drop Dead

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The Reds lost and all the Mets needed to do to make the playoffs for the third time in four years was win their 84th game of the season. They didn’t.

Choose your recap: Amazin’ Avenue, Faith and Fear in Flushing, NY Post, MLB.com, Daily News, Newsday.

After the Mets season officially ended, Pete Alonso announced his intention to opt out of the remainder of his contract while Edwin Diaz wasn’t quite ready to proclaim anything in either direction.

David Stearns will have his end of the year press conference with the media at 3:30 today at Citi Field.

They had the money, the players, the names, the talent, and they still blew it at the end.

According to Andy Martino, some changes to the coaching staff are expected at some point soon.

If you found yourself upset and annoyed at the Cedric Mullins Experience, you weren’t the only one feeling that way.

Around the National League East

To end their division-winning season, the Phillies walked off the Minnesota Twins on a Nick Castellanos sacrifice fly in a 2-1 win.

Ultimately they weren’t no hit or perfect gamed, but the Nationals only managed a single hit in their last game of the season, losing 8-0 to the White Sox.

Bob Carpenter’s 41-year Major League Baseball announcing career and 19-year run as Nationals play-by-play man have come to an end with his retirement.

Chris Sale got the win and Ronald Acuna Jr. homered in the Braves’ finale, giving one last glimpse at what this fourth-place season could’ve been.

Former Marlins All Star Garrett Cooper announced his retirement after nearly a decade in the majors with five different teams.

Around Major League Baseball

The Mets didn’t get to the playoffs, but 12 other teams did!

Clayton Kershaw pitched 5.1 shutout innings in the final regular season start of his career and won’t take the field again until the Dodgers reach the NLDS. If the Dodgers reach the NLDS.

Michael A. Taylor announced his retirement and received a standing ovation as he walked off the field for the final time at Nationals Park, where it all began.

In what is likely to be his final game as a San Francisco Giant, fans at Oracle Park gave Wilmer Flores a standing ovation as he was pulled from the game early and headed to the dugout.

With their game 162 win over the Rays, the Toronto Blue Jays are AL East champions for the first time in almost exactly 10 years.

The Cleveland Guardians officially completed one of the biggest comebacks in baseball history, coming all the way from 15.5 games back to win the American League Central.

Shohei Ohtani broke his own Dodgers’ single season home run record and also became the first player in Major League Baseball history to finish a season with 55 home runs.

Bob Melvin doesn’t know what his future holds with the Giants, but either way he’s fine with whatever the team decides today.

In better news for the team, Willy Adames hit his 30th home run, becoming the first San Francisco Giant since Barry Bonds in 2004 to reach the 30-homer plateau.

Just in case you don’t feel bad enough, the Cincinnati Reds are one of the least statistically impressive teams to ever make the postseason in baseball history.

Sure, they still won’t refer to themselves as being from the city, but the [INVALID] Athletics will have Sacramento across their chest on one uniform next year.

Hope for Ramon Laureano’s return at some point during the Padres playoff run can be described as “delusional” at best and impossible at worst.

For only the fifth time since divisions were created and the first time since 2005, there was not a single no hitter thrown this season.

The Italian and Dutch national teams played for the European Baseball Championship with the Netherlands coming out on top.

This Date in Mets History

On this date 50 years ago, Casey Stengel died at age 85.