The Jets have shockingly fired head coach Robert Saleh on Tuesday after a 2-3 start to the season.

Saleh was 20-36 as the Jets coach five games into his fourth season on the job. The Jets entered the 2024 season with Super Bowl aspirations as quarterback Aaron Rodgers returned from a season-ending injury in 2023.

The Jets have not looked good in the early part of the season, though, and have dropped the last two games. The final straw was a 23-17 loss to the Vikings in London on Sunday, a game in which Aaron Rodgers threw three interceptions and the offense looked lost for much of the game.

Defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich will be the interim head coach.

Saleh had one year remaining on the contract he signed in 2021.

For five-plus innings Wednesday the sellout crowd at Citi Field waited patiently for the chance to erupt, and finally Francisco Lindor’s mighty bat delivered a sixth-inning grand slam.

The New York Mets defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1, and head to the National League Championship Series.

Lindor went ahead 2-1 in the count before launching a 99-mph fastball over the fence in right-center to start the countdown party. Nine outs later, the Mets celebrated the first home clincher in Citi Field’s 16 seasons of existence.

It was just the latest dramatic blast for Lindor, whose ninth-inning homer in Atlanta on Sept. 30 in the first game of a doubleheader helped clinch a postseason berth for the Mets.

The Phillies were the NL East champions, but that designation got them exactly one playoff victory. The Mets, who entered the postseason as a wild card with the No. 6 seed, needed a victory on the final day of the regular season just to reach the playoffs.

Without their top receiver and running back, the New York Giants scored their most points of the season in a 29-20 victory over the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. 

Isaiah Simmons sealed the win when he jumped over the line of scrimmage and blocked a potential game-tying field goal, which Bryce Ford-Wheaton returned 60 yards for a touchdown with 55 seconds left in regulation. The Giants improved to 2-3 on the season while the Seahawks fell to 3-2 after consecutive losses.

The Seahawks fell behind the Giants by 10 points with less than 12 minutes to play in the fourth quarter, but it looked like they would force overtime with a Jason Myers field goal with just over a minute left to play in Seattle.

Isaiah Simmons had other ideas. Simmons vaulted over the line and blocked Myers’ attempt to tie the game. Wide receiver Bryce Ford-Wheaton recovered the ball and returned it for a 60-yard touchdown.

The victory was a well-earned one for a Giants team that controlled play despite the absences of wide receiver Malik Nabers and running back Devin Singletary. They picked up 421 yards of offense and sacked Geno Smith seven times over the course of the afternoon.

Daniel Jones was 23-of-34 for 257 yards and Tyrone Tracy ran 18 times for 129 yards against a Seahawks defense that lost linebacker Uchenna Nwosu and cornerback Riq Woolen to injuries during the game.