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george castillo
multiple authors
NEW YORK — It was a prime opportunity to bounce back from a poor start to the season New York Mets‘The nine-game homestand against three sub-.500 clubs added to the nightmare for the second-most expensive roster in the majors.
fell to mets Washington Nationals Lost the three-game series at Citi Field on Thursday, 5–4, and finished the homestand 3–6. They have lost 17 of their last 20 games and will begin May with the worst record in baseball at 10–21.
Manager Carlos Mendoza said, “Obviously it’s not good enough.” “No secret. That’s not going to happen. We’ve got to start winning series. Period.”
New York was six runs away from winning the series at the time of the setup man on Thursday luke weaver Tasked with maintaining a one-run lead in the eighth inning. Instead, he hung a change CJ Abrams Blasted the go-ahead two-run home run. The difference proved after the swing ronnie mauricio A runner on second base was hit to end the game, drawing boos from the small crowd still present for the matinee.
“The freedom that we play with day to day is a little bit suffocating,” Weaver said.
Mets get some oxygen in third inning after starter freddy peralta Due to a mistake in throwing, I dug myself a 3-0 hole. MJ Melendeztook third place in the lineup behind juan sotoSlammed a game-tying three-run homer. Three innings later, Melendez dropped a sacrifice bunt to move Soto to third base. After this, Soto scored on Vientos’ double to give New York the lead.
The performance continued a difficult stretch for Melendez, who has been the Mets’ second-best hitter since being called up to the majors on April 15 with a 1.061 OPS in 33 plate appearances. But Mendoza chose to pinch-hit. austin slaterThe right-handed hitter homered to Melendez, a left-handed hitter, with Soto on second again in the eighth inning, with no outs and the left-hander Richard Lovelady On the mound.
It was Slater’s second appearance since signing with the Mets on Sunday. He left the field before Vientos could line up Tyrone Taylor Came out to trap Soto at second.
“Obviously, Slater is here to attack the left,” Mendoza said. “Knowing that we’ve seen Lovelady against southpaws as well. Just wanted to take a chance against her with a right and try to cause damage.”
The loss was the only loss on the Mets’ record. He finished April in the grip of colorado rockies And lost two out of three games at Nationals. They begin May in Anaheim for a three-game series against the Freefalling Los Angeles AngelsLosing six games in a row, knowing that the hole was getting very deep.
“This is hard for all of us,” Mendoza said. “We’re in this together. It’s not easy. But we have to keep going. There’s no other option here. We have a responsibility and we have to turn this thing around.”
