ATLANTA — Friday afternoon, on a FaceTime call with his former Milwaukee Brewers teammate Christian Yelich, designated hitter Daniel Vogelbach explained the complicated stakes of the weekend series the New York Mets were about to embark upon in Atlanta.
Entering the penultimate series of the regular season, one game separated the top two teams in the only division still up for grabs, the National League East. This year,, four teams — the top two in each league — will receive a bye for the first round. Three have already been determined. The Mets and Braves are fighting for the last one.
“I'm actually glad I'm in the race,” said Max Scherzer before the series got underway, unsurprisingly amped to not be in a position to coast. “I enjoy being in these races. I'm so lucky to be on a team where you get to come to the park and it's a must-win game.” And then the Braves won two more against the Mets themselves to switch spots in the standings, now up one. The New York Yankees lead baseball in team home runs — it helps to have one guy rack up 61 of them — but the Braves are No. 2 in the sport. Against elite pitching, their ability to turn any mistakes into instant runs proved to be the difference. The Mets started their co-aces in the first two games of the series, playing their strongest card by lining up Jacob deGrom and Scherzer.
The last good race in baseball this year is a doozy. And, if fans are lucky, a preview of many more like it to come.The Mets-Braves rivalry hasn’t been truly bitter since before some of these rookies were born. The two teams — that used to make the insults personal and turn their personal lives into living, breathing taunts — haven’t finished first and second in the division since 2000. Although that was merely just past the midpoint of the Braves’ 14 straight years of NL East titles.
Less than half hour before the first pitch of Friday’s game, the Braves announced that starting pitcher Charlie Morton would be returning in 2023, on a $20 million contract, with a club option for 2024. It was just the latest, and perhaps least splashy, in a spate of extensions that have come to characterize the current regime in Atlanta.
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