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The Arizona Diamondbacks stumble into New York coming off a three-game sweep at the hands of the Miami Marlins, having been outscored 20-4. That dropped the team record to 15-16. They’re in 4
th place in the NL West, 3 games back of the 1
st place Giants. They’re 1.5 games out of the Wild Card with 5 teams in front of them.
The last time the D-backs went into Citi Field to face the New York Mets was September 9-12 , 2019 . The team was just 1.5 games back for the second Wild Card at the time. But they were outscored 26-4 in a four game sweep effectively knocking them out of the race. The year before, in May 2018 they were swept three straight in Citi Field in the midst of a record breaking offensive slump. In fact, dating back to August 23