The New York Mets will be at home this week.
They missed the MLB playoffs in pretty inexplicable fashion after a brutal second-half collapse.
And while Mets fans are probably hurting from the whole experience, if there's any more room for pain, there's one particular painful stat.
Talkin' Baseball shared that the Mets went 0-67 this season in games they trailed after the eighth inning.
The post also noted that every other team in baseball had at least one win this season when trailing after eight innings.
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Of course, not all eight-inning deficits are created equal. Sometimes it's an insurmountable six-run margin or something like that.
But there is something about mojo that makes it feel like some teams are great at comebacks and others simply don't have it in them.
This season's Mets team, the one that couldn't pull itself off the brink of this now-completed collapse, just didn't quite have it within themselves.
It's really too bad, because these Mets had so many talented players.
But sometimes it takes more than that to get over the finish line. And for whatever reason, the Mets couldn't find a way to complete the difficult races.
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