Stone-handed Mets drop game; N.Y. bobbles ball four times, wastes 4-0 lead, falls again.(Sports)

Byline: DAVID LENNON - Newsday

Nationals 12

Mets 4

WASHINGTON - The smell from the visitors' dugout at RFK Stadium before Monday night's game was more than a little ripe. With this old building down to its final week of baseball, it could have been anything, from leaky sewage pipes to a rodent infestation.

Or, in the New York Mets' case, a team's playoff hopes rotting from the inside. "It smells pretty funky," manager Willie Randolph said.

His words turned out to be prophetic. As if getting swept at Shea by the Philadelphia Phillies over the weekend wasn't bad enough, the Mets followed with another poor effort, as emergency …