It happened again.
Different season, different manager, different race, different opponent going past them in the season’s final week – same result.
VACCARO: LEGENDS OF THE ‘FALL’
FLASHBACK: ’07 COLLAPSE COMPLETE
The Phillies blew past the Mets to take the NL East by three games this season. The Brewers, battling their own September demons, were able to keep it together and come from 2 ½ games back of the Mets in the wild-card race to pass then hold them off over the final weekend.
Last season the Mets’ lead was larger – seven games with 17 left – but the pain of it happening twice in a row may make it worse.
“It’s going to be a long offseason. I know I don’t want to experience it again,” David Wright said after last year’s collapse.
And after experiencing it again …
“We failed. We failed as a team,” Wright said. “There’s no pointing fingers. There’s no excuses. We as a unit didn’t get the job done.”
With AP