If the Mets keep blowing leads like this, they’ll blow the entire season.
Friday night’s 11-9 loss to the Mariners at Citi Field featured yet one more instance of the Mets’ inability to guard a lead in a month that has been chock filled with them. It wasn’t only once, either, but twice on this high-scoring affair in Flushing.
The not-so-Amazin’s bullpen has blown 11 leads in seven straight games.
That is just the second time within the last 17 years that the Mets have coughed up a lead in seven consecutive contests. The last time they’d a stretch like this was once they flushed a lead in eight straight games in a lost 2023 campaign.
“Bottom line, we got to begin playing higher,” manager Carlos Mendoza said after the sport. “Especially whenever you get the lead, we’ve got to have the opportunity to shut those games down. And again, an excessive amount of talent back there. You’re talking about 6-7 guys which have closing experience and are able to getting the last three outs of a game… They’re going through it straight away and like I’m going to maintain saying, our job is to get it back heading in the right direction.”
After losing their one-run result in Cal Raleigh’s two-run homer into the second deck in left field within the third inning, the Mets’ meltdown got here right on cue within the seventh inning. The 2-run lead they’d inbuilt the fourth can have dwindled to at least one, 6-5, entering the seventh, however the Mets haven’t been capable of hang on to any advantage currently, irrespective of the scale.
Ryan Helsley, fresh off losing an eighth-inning lead in Thursday’s loss to the Braves, only faced three batters because the Mariners whacked two doubles to tie the sport at 6-6.
The Mets ultimately limped out of the seventh inning trailing 10-6.
So why has this continued to occur?
“We’ve all asked that query,” Francisco Lindor said. “It’s tough to point at one thing, you understand? We’re all attempting to win ballgames. All I can consider straight away is that we’re not clicking at the identical time, and the opposite team is outplaying us. Mendy is true, we’ve got plenty of talent. We’ve plenty of good people here.
“We’re having a tricky stretch, we’re not having a terrible season. Everybody has the sense of urgency to attempt to get out of it. One way or the other, someway we’re not coming out on top at the tip of the day.”
