After defeating the Braves on Monday - on the road at that - it looked like maybe the Mets had more fight in them than anyone had thought after the trade deadline purge. However, after a nailbiter on Tuesday and a blowout on Wednesday, the Mets find themselves back where they were before the Cardinals series: not really in the Wild Card hunt, but not out of it yet.
Currently eight games out of the third Wild Card spot, the Mets certainly, from a team philosophy perspective, are trying to tank, or at least are accepting their lot as a bottom tier team playing for draft position.