MIAMI — This wasn’t exactly payback for all the late-season heartbreak the Marlins have inflicted on the Mets over the years, but it had to count for something.

After all, the Marlins began the week clinging to National League wild-card hopes.

They will end it as just another team that likely can focus exclusively on next season.

The Mets completed a three-game sweep of these dead fish with a 15-14 victory Wednesday at loanDepot park.

Even so, it doesn’t erase the sting of losing Game 162 last season in this ballpark, when a victory would have pushed the Mets into the playoffs.

The Mets were also denied postseason berths in 2007 and ’08 with losses to the Marlins in the regular-season finales.

Only adding to the Mets’ angst this season, they were swept three games here Memorial Day weekend.

The Marlins were on life support at four games back for the NL’s third wild-card spot when this series began.

With the losses, they fell 6 1/2 games behind the Diamondbacks and Padres.

“Let them continue on that run to see if they can make it,” Francisco Lindor said, downplaying the idea of payback on the Marlins. “You have got to focus on what you have in front of you. Last year [for us] is what it is. It sucked.”

Ultimately, this limited payback by the Mets likely won’t be remembered beyond the fact interim manager Andy Green’s team is surging headed into this weekend’s Subway Series in The Bronx.

Francisco Lindor belts a three-run homer in the seventh inning of the Mets’ 15-14 win over the Marlins on Sept. 9. 2026 in Miami. Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

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The Mets completed the sweep the hard way, squandering an eight-run lead before exploding for six runs in the seventh.

But the Marlins fought back to score six runs over their next three at-bats before Tobias Myers recorded the final two outs.

“We got the two-point conversion and two touchdowns for the win,” Green said. “It’s as crazy a game as you will see. I love the resilience.”

A.J. Ewing hits a sacrifice fly during the seventh inning of the Mets’ shootout win over the Marlins. Getty Images

The Mets have won four straight games and six of seven, which has included three straight series victories.

After hitting three homers against Sandy Alcantara on Tuesday, the Mets kept the offensive machine rolling against Janson Junk and raced to an 8-0 lead after only three innings.

Starter Robert Stock pitched four innings for the Mets and allowed three earned runs on five hits and two walks with four strikeouts.

Christopher Morel celebrates in the dugout with teammates after hitting a two-run homer during the third inning of the Mets’ shootout win over the Marlins. Getty Images

A.J. Ewing and Brett Baty each delivered an RBI single in the second inning to give the Mets a 2-0 lead. Baty left the game upon reaching first base with “left knee pain,” according to the team.

The Mets weren’t finished in the inning: Luis Torrens stroked a two-run double before Bo Bichette’s RBI single extended the lead to 5-0. Carson Benge’s RBI groundout completed the six-run inning.

Christopher Morel smashed a two-run homer in the third that buried the Marlins in an 8-0 hole.

Luis Torrens rips an RBI double in the second inning of the Mets’ shootout win over the Marlins. Getty Images

Morel, who replaced Baty, finished 3-for-4 with three RBIs.

Stock was dented in the fourth, allowing all three of his runs. Joe Mack’s single delivered two runs. Stock hit and walked a batter in the frame.

Miami rallied to tie it 8-8 in the sixth inning with five runs on four hits and one walk against Chris Devenski, who recorded only one out. Owen Caissie homered leading off the inning to start the barrage.

Ewing, Morel and Torrens each had an RBI in the seventh inning to give the Mets an 11-8 lead before Lindor unloaded for his second homer in as many games.

The Mets added another run in the eighth.

But the Marlins kept clawing, including a three-run outburst in the ninth against Nate Lavender before leaving the tying run at second base as Myers escaped.

“It was one of those days where it was tough to get anybody out,” Green said. “For our guys to be that gritty, that determined, and come out with the win was huge.”