With 12 games remaining in this odd, truncated season, the Mets currently find themselves two and a half games behind the eighth and final playoff spot in the National League. Not an insurmountable deficit, but one the Mets should not have had to overcome in the first place.
The Mets could have virtually clinched a playoff spot by just being mediocre. The Giants now hold that eighth spot, and they are a game under .500.
The rest of the regular season sees the Mets playing two more games with the Phillies, three each with the Braves and Rays at home and four games with the Nationals on the road to close out the 60-game season.