This Braves horror movie looks all too familiar for Mets

ATLANTA — I have seen this horror movie before and the Mets don’t get out of this haunted house alive.The cast changes — for both sides — and the set changes as the Braves move ballparks every 20 years or so.But the results?It is not just that the Mets came to Atlanta and lost on Tuesday night.

It is that it all looked familiar.They played poorly in every phase.

The Braves played well.Atlanta center fielder Michael Harris was such a Met-killing Chipper off the old block that you could convince me he is going to name his next born child Citi.The final of the opener of this pivotal series was 5-1 and when Game 2 might be played — Wednesday, Thursday or part of a doubleheader next Monday (a.k.a.

the day after the regular season should be ending and the day before the playoffs should be beginning) is in doubt.The Mets’ wild-card lead over the Braves was sliced to one on the same day that Georgia governor Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency, bracing for Tropical Storm Helene, which may hit land as a Category 3 hurricane.It is supposed to rain heavily Wednesday and biblically Thursday.

Thus, the downpour the Mets and their owner, Steve Cohen, have been envisioning — of champagne — might not arrive in Atlanta (if at all).The Mets could assure a wild card and that celebration with two victories against the Braves.But if the Braves win once more against the Mets, it would give them the season series and the playoff tiebreaker if the two clubs finished tied.Whenever it may come (if it comes), Cohen is so hungry for his first champagne dousing as Mets owner that despite agreeing to host his 50th high school reunion at Citi Field on Saturday, he plans to skip it if the Mets can clinch that day in Milwaukee.

When the Mets were wild cards in 2022, they had a champagne toast.That is because in the penultimate series of the year, they were swept out of first place in Atlanta and, thus, the runner-up celebration was muted when it came.Before the first pitc...