Alas, after a three-game Subway Series loss to the Yankees and Monday night’s 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Red Sox, the honeymoon is over — not because the Mets are losing and have fallen out of first place in the NL East for the first time in more than a month but, to borrow one of Sandy Alderson’s favored phrases, the optics of how they are losing and falling out of first place. Overall this season, the Mets have scored four runs or fewer 26 times in 48 games and are hitting .218 with runners in scoring position — leaving them in a virtual tie for 25th with the Rangers and ahead of only the Pirates, Rockies, White Sox and Orioles, who have the four worst records in baseball. The Mets’ issues on both sides of the ball are probably just routine valleys endured over the course of a season — the type of valleys that stand out because there have been so few of them over the last 10 months.
Author: Jerry Beach, Contributor, Jerry Beach, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybeach/
Published at: 2025-05-20 21:53:29
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