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5 moments that shaped Mets’ season
- Updated: October 3, 2016
NEW YORK — Had the Mets missed the postseason in 2016, injuries would have been the culprit. From David Wright to Neil Walker to three-fifths of the pitching staff, the Mets endured countless maladies over the course of the summer. Even relatively healthy players such as Yoenis Cespedes and Asdrubal Cabrera were not immune.
But injuries also opened the door for the surprise characters of the Mets’ postseason run — Seth Lugo, Robert Gsellman, Jose Reyes and others — to take their places on the roster. Were it not for those players, the Mets never would have come close to accomplishing what they did, reaching the National League Wild Card Game against the Giants at Citi Field (Wednesday on ESPN, 8 p.m. ET) .
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Looking back, here are five moments that changed the Mets’ season, most of them rooted in an injury or the aftermath of one:
May 27: Though they didn’t know it at the time, Wright’s fourth-inning homer in a 6-5 win over the Dodgers would be his final contribution to the 2016 Mets. Wright did not play again, hitting just .226 with seven home runs in 37 games before undergoing season-ending surgery to repair a herniated disk in his neck.
Wright’s injury was the first major season-ending one for the Mets, who went on to pursue both Reyes …
