{"id":86496,"date":"2024-09-25T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=86496"},"modified":"2024-09-26T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T19:11:52","slug":"braves-mets-doubleheader-monday-postseason-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/25\/braves-mets-doubleheader-monday-postseason-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets, Braves to Play Doubleheader Monday with Potential for Postseason Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that due to weather in Atlanta, the games between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday would be made up as part of a traditional doubleheader Monday afternoon, and those games could have significant playoff implications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the Mets and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/17\/braves-must-take-care-of-business-under-500\/\" target=\"_self\">Braves<\/a> are in the hunt for postseason berths heading into the final weekend.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York currently holds the second Wild Card spot, a half-game up on the Arizona Diamondbacks, who have a half-game lead over Atlanta for the third and final Wild Card.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Both today and tomorrow&#8217;s games between the Mets and Braves have been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams will play a straight doubleheader starting at 1:10 p.m on Monday. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xcu3zPwDp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/xcu3zPwDp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNY_Mets\/status\/1839050479566836151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Mets-Braves Doubleheader with Implications for Postseason Scheduled for Monday<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depending on how things shake out over the weekend, one or both teams could end up having to fly straight from Atlanta to either Milwaukee or San Diego to open their Wild Card playoff series the following day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the Braves, things would be fairly simple. They\u2019re home this weekend against the Kansas City Royals \u2013 a team also fighting for playoff positioning \u2013 so it would simply be one extra day of games before opening the postseason on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mets, though, have it a little rougher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They will be facing the Brewers this weekend in Milwaukee. So a scenario exists in which the Mets would play three games at American Family Field, fly to Atlanta for a doubleheader Monday then fly right back to Milwaukee to open the Wild Card series on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>More Wrinkles in NL Wild Card Race<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Diamondbacks, losers of three in a row, wrap up a three-game series against the San Francisco Giants tonight, then after an off-day Thursday, close out their regular season with three at home against the Padres, who currently hold the No. 1 Wild Card spot with a 4 \u00bd &#8211; game lead over New York, putting them in line to host one of the two best-of-three series and face the No. 2 Wild Card team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barring a late collapse by the Los Angeles Dodgers or Philadelphia Phillies, who hold the two best records in the National League, the Brewers will host the other Wild Card series by virtue of winning the Central Division for a second straight season, and would face the third Wild Card team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if all this isn\u2019t confusing enough, there\u2019s also one more added twist. If the Diamondbacks fall out of the race, this leaves the Braves and Mets as the last two teams in. With the seeding undecided before Monday, the decision of whether or not to play the doubleheader would go to Commissioner Rob Manfred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Brett Davis-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that due to weather in Atlanta, the games between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday would be made up as part of a traditional doubleheader Monday afternoon, and those games could have significant playoff implications. 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