MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joey Ortiz drove in three runs for Milwaukee and the New York Mets scored just two as their playoff hopes suffered another setback with a 4-0 loss to the Brewers on Saturday night.

New York (87-72) lost its third straight game and fell one game behind Atlanta (88-71) in the NL wild-card race when the Braves beat Kansas City with a ninth-inning walk-off home run from the former Met defeated Travis d’Arnaud 2-1.

The Mets are competing for the NL’s final two wild-card spots with the Braves and Arizona (88-72), which hosted San Diego.

Both the Mets and Braves have an advantage over the Diamondbacks in the head-to-head tiebreaker. The Mets and Braves would play a doubleheader in Atlanta on Monday if their postseason fate was not resolved.

Ortiz gave the Brewers a 2-0 lead in the fourth by sending a bases-loaded single to left center on a full-count curveball from Jose Quintana (10-10).

Milwaukee opened the game in the eighth inning by scoring four runs against Reed Garrett, the first runs he allowed since August 18. The breakout included an RBI single by Willy Adames, a bases-loaded walk by Ortiz and a two-run single by Andruw Monasterio.

Quintana and four relievers combined for 18 strikeouts, the Mets’ highest total this season. But New York was shut out for the first time since Aug. 23 and faced two or fewer hits for the fifth time this year.

Jose Iglesias singled in the first inning and Starling Marte hit a ground-rule double in the fifth inning. The only other time the Mets put a runner on base was when Iglesias drew a one-out walk in the ninth.

Quintana (10-10) came into the game with 22 2/3 consecutive shutout innings. He struck out nine while allowing two runs, five hits and two walks in 4 1/3 innings.

After Milwaukee’s Jared Koenig pitched a scoreless first inning as the opener, Tobias Myers (9-6) took the lead, striking out five while allowing one hit and no walks in four innings.

Joel Payamps, Aaron Ashby, Nick Mears and Devin Williams each pitched a hitless inning.

After the Brewers took the lead in the fourth, Marte led off the fifth with a double and advanced to the third when Luis Torrens retired. Marte got stuck at third after Myers retired Harrison Bader with a liner to third and Luisangel Acuña with a fly to right.

TRAINER ROOM

Mets: C Francisco Alvarez was not on the roster after back spasms caused him to leave Friday’s 8-4 loss for the Mets. He failed a pinch-hitting attempt in the eighth inning. … SS Francisco Lindor did not play in the field and was 0 for 4 with two strikeouts as DH, a day after returning from a sore lower back that sidelined him for nearly two weeks. “I just thought it wasn’t ideal to throw him back to back after being out on the field for 10, 11 days,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said.

Brewers: Although an MRI revealed no structural damage, OF Sal Frelick injured his hip Friday when he hit the right field wall while trying to catch a diving foul ball. The NL Central champion Brewers expect to start the playoffs without Frelick, but aren’t ruling out a possible return at some point in the postseason.

NEXT

LHP David Peterson (9-3, 3.08) will start the Mets’ series finale on Sunday.

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