NY also would have to jump over Seattle, Houston and Detroit to earn a postseason berth. The 43-year-old Dominican owns a 1-1 mark versus Atlanta in three starts this season, but received a no-decision after permitting two homers and three runs total on September 10.
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The Braves, despite being a miserable 61-90, won the season series against the Mets, 10-9. Mets RF Jay Bruce was out of the lineup for the third time in the last four games.
Luis Severino (3-8) pitched 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win.
Jim Johnson got three outs for his 17th save.
Brad Miller put the Rays up 2-0 with a two-run triple in the third. He kept the Braves off the scoreboard for six innings before surrendering a two-run homer to catcher Anthony Recker in the seventh.
“My flight was at 11:30, but that doesn’t mean I got any sleep last night because my son was screaming his head off”, Freeman said.
“Hopefully, I have some other cool games I can tell him about, too”, Freeman said.
It wasn’t the first time on Wednesday night that Yoenis Cespedes narrowly missed a home run. He tied a career high with seven strikeouts.
New York Mets’ Yoenis Cespedes reacts after striking out swinging for the final out with Asdrubal Cabrera at first base in the Mets’ 5-4 loss to the Atlanta Braves in a baseball game, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in New York.
The Mets are now tied with the Cardinals in the wild card standings and trail the San Francisco Giants by a half game at the moment.
Bartolo Colon and Jeurys Familia failed to protect a three-run lead for the Mets in a late-season thriller. They beat the Mets for the second day in a row and have won five straight at Citi Field. When a 25-year-old pitcher doesn’t pitch well do you say, “At 25, he’s starting to slow down”. In June, Teheran threw a one-hit shutout at this ballpark, and the two-time All-Star is 2-0 in four starts against NY this year.
Teheran struck out a season-low one, but a couple of fastballs up and a couple more inside early in the game seemed to serve their goal and keep the Mets off the plate. An error by normally sure-handed first baseman James Loney helped Atlanta tie the game with an unearned run in the eighth.
He was batting.265 with 25 homers and a National League-leading 80 RBIs when the Mets acquired him in an August 1 trade with the Cincinnati Reds. We were struggling to get anything going against Mets starter Robert Gsellman until the 6th. The rookie took a 1-0 lead into the sixth before a misplayed flyball cost him.
Instead of leaving Reed in to face Freddie Freeman, Collins went to lefty Josh Smoker.
Seeking a five-out save from his All-Star closer, Mets manager Terry Collins turned to Familia with two runners on.
Teheran (6-10) gave up five hits and left with a 5-1 lead, retiring 15 of his last 16 batters.
What makes this loss even more annoying to the Mets is, well, it came against the NL-worst Braves.
Mets: Rookie LHP Steven Matz (shoulder) threw a bullpen and is tentatively scheduled to start Friday night against Philadelphia, assuming he feels fine Thursday. Collins hopes for a speedy return.
Braves: RHP Ryan Weber (1-1, 5.46) is set to make his second start in the majors this year.
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After blowing a 3-0 lead, the Mets were trailing by one in the bottom of the ninth. The 43-year-old is 5-1 with a 2.21 ERA in his last nine starts.
