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NEW YORK — With 53 games and more than eight weeks to go, the NL East is far from won, the annals of baseball history pockmarked enough by comebacks and collapses and other September surprises that, well, as one long-ago Mets manager said, it ain’t over till it’s over.

This is the story of a placekicker who could have punted on his dream school, but didn’t.

NEW YORK — As the Mets try to figure out how their new pieces fit and what it all means for their eventual World Series chances, they should try to remember that going down 8-0 in the second inning is not conducive to winning.

This couple will 100% have the best walk-out of wedding season.

DALLAS — The first time Kumar Rocker threw a baseball was to his mother, Lalitha, as Kumar’s football-famous father, Tracy, stood nearby in the family’s front yard.

NEW YORK — The Mets pulled out all the stops on Thursday night in a 6-4 win over Atlanta before 38,693 at Citi Field.

Everybody knows that the Braves don’t need to win the National League East to make the playoffs. There are three wild cards now, so they don’t even need to finish with one of the top two records for non-division winners. Getting in the postseason and then seeing what happens worked…

WASHINGTON — It was just as beautiful as one would dream it to be.

ATLANTA — There’s no way the Braves could match the package that the Padres offered to acquire Nationals superstar Juan Soto on Tuesday. The Braves no longer have the top-rated prospects necessary to pull it off. Anyway, it’s unlikely the team would want to do a deal like that. There’s…