The New York Mets are playing the final trump card they had in their deck.
With just two games left in the regular season and the NL Wild Card standings hanging in the balance, the Mets are calling up an all-or-nothing pitcher.
Dylan Ross will be joining the Mets for Saturday and Sunday, according to MLB.com's Anthony DiComo.
Ross is a reliever whose fastball touches 102 miles per hour.
He has struck out 80 batters in 54 innings but also walked 5.5 batters per nine innings.
It should be an adventure.
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The Mets must've felt they had to try something. They had a bad loss to the Miami Marlins on Friday night, and it took their postseason fate out of their own hands.
The Cincinnati Reds and Mets now have the same record, but it's the Reds who hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Mets.
That means that New York needs to outplay Cincinnati by a game over the final two to take back the third and final NL Wild Card spot.
Ross might be a risky addition, but he's also uber-talented. The Mets have no margin for error, and so they wanted their arm with the biggest raw talent from the minors up with the club, too.
It's not clear whether manager Carlos Mendoza would even trust Ross enough to put him in a ballgame.
But his hard-throwing arm is coming to MLB, and if he makes his debut, it could be in a pivotal moment.
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