DENVER _ The Mets' increasingly improbable path to the playoffs looks a lot like the path they already took to relevant second-half baseball: They have to crush bad teams.
That is what they did in late July and early August, when they lost one game in two and a half weeks and revived their season. And it is what they will have a chance to do the next week and a half, as they play the out-of-contention Rockies, Reds and Marlins.
But now the Mets will need help _ a lot of it. After their 9-4 loss to the Rockies on Monday, the Mets are five games back of a National League wild-card spot with 12 games to play.
