At 11:28 pm on Sunday, nearly 90 minutes after the Mets’ season had ended, Chris Bassitt had racked a set of balls on the pool table in the home clubhouse at Citi Field. He fiddled with them, never picking up a cue, as a few other members of the starting pitching staff stood around nearby.

Behind him and to the left, Luis Guillorme was putting his things into a large cardboard box. Across the room, there were suitcases and bags scattered in front of stalls. Some players, surely, had packed for a divisional series in Los Angeles. Instead, the Mets will scatter to their respective homes.

To give you an idea of what this usually looks like: a baseball clubhouse after a normal game can clear out quickly. Everyone changes, reporters talk to whoever was relevant in the game, everyone goes home. On Sunday, though, the Mets lingered. Brandon Nimmo, one of the team’s impending free agents, took photos on the field with his family following the 6-0 loss to the Padres that ended the season in the wild-card round. He doesn’t know what the future will hold. Neither does Bassitt, who has a mutual option in his deal for next year.

There’s a usual set of emotions that comes with a season ending, particularly in such disappointing fashion as the Mets suffered on Sunday. The home crowd emptied out before the ninth, and after Juan Soto salted the game away with a two-run single in the eighth, one fan screamed in anguish, “What happened to this team?” The Mets didn’t seem to have an answer to that question.