Depends on how these guys react to the pressure but I think playing meaningful games down the stretch can benefit the Mets, but we need strong quality pitching performances like Oliver Perez gave yesterday. The bullpen is over worked and cannot provide the push we need right now so our starters need to be able to go that extra inning or two.
Age and injuries have to come into play. We have suffered so many injuries all year long, with important players missing large amount of games but even with that said we were up by seven, the season almost over and we blew it. The Phillies are just 1.5 games behind us, only half a game behind the Padres for the Wild Card spot, these guys are hungry and they are showing it. We need to start watching the scoreboard to see if the Padres start losing as well so that if the Phillies do catch us we have the Wild Card to fall back on.