 New York 's win clinched the team 's fifth postseason berth in franchise history , their first since losing in the 1988 National League Championship Series . The playoff berth made the Mets the second team in MLB history to make the playoffs after being two games back of the leader with three games left to play in the season . The Mets defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS in four games . This win advanced the Mets to the NLCS where they were defeated by the Atlanta Braves in six games . After the defeat , Mets General Manager Steve Phillips summed up the harrowing weeks the team had been through saying that " we had destiny in our own hands , we lost destiny , we got it back in our own hands ... We didn 't choke . We didn 't fold . We won . " 
