The undeserving Mets are now on the brink of utter embarrassment
The Mets endured a nightmare night in Miami to move closer to missing out on the playoffs. Plus, Brett Baty could be done for the year...
What’s up with the Mets? ⚾️
The Mets suffered the worst possible start to their season-defining series in Miami, losing 6-2 to the Marlins in the opener on Friday (box)
New York melted down in a house of horrors fifth inning, allowing six runs with sloppy mistakes and bad pitching once again sealing this team’s fate
RHP Brandon Sproat pitched three no-hit innings before imploding in the fifth, allowing four earned runs on five hits before being pulled from the game
LHP Gregory Soto pitched in relief of Sproat but couldn’t stop the bleeding, allowing two earned runs on three hits over 1.1 innings
SS Francisco Lindor hit a leadoff home run and 1B Pete Alonso drove in a run with a RBI double, both in the first, to give the Mets an early lead
However, the offense did nothing from that point on, finishing 1-for-10 with RISP while leaving seven runners stranded on base
The Mets are calling up RHP Dylan Ross (No. 20 prospect) for today’s game in Miami (The Athletic)
RHP Kodai Senga threw another bullpen session on Friday and the Mets will now determine the next possible steps for a possible return this weekend
Injury Updates 🏥
3B Brett Baty suffered right-side soreness in the first inning of Friday’s game and was removed in the second inning. There is a fear that Baty could be done for the year with a potential oblique injury
RHP Reed Garrett (elbow sprain) has been recommended to undergo Tommy John Surgery, but will first seek a second opinion
Playoff Race 🏁
The Reds beat the Brewers 3-1 on Friday, while the Diamondbacks lost 7-4 to the Padres.
With their win, the Reds once again have an identical record to the Mets for the final Wild Card spot with two games to go. But because Cincinnati owns the tiebreaker, the Mets no longer control their playoff destiny. They must win the next two while the Reds go no better than 1-1 in order to make the postseason.
The Mets could be eliminated as soon as today if they lose and the Reds win.
Meanwhile, the Diamondbacks were officially eliminated from postseason contention with their loss on Friday night.
Playoff scenarios and tiebreakers:
The Mets do not own the tiebreaker against the Reds (season series: 2-4) - if they finish with identical records, the Reds would eliminate the Mets
Per Fangraphs, the Mets have a 44.8% chance of making the playoffs, dramatically down from the 77.9% odds they had on Friday. Meanwhile, the Reds now have a 55.2% chance of securing a postseason berth, up from the 20.0% odds they had on Friday.
Play of the Game 🫠
The Mets just could not get out of their own way in the fifth inning.
There were so many bad moments in just that one inning alone, we were spoilt for choice for today’s POTG.
However, in the end, we’ll go with the play that really broke the Mets’ backs.
After committing a slew of defensive miscues, and with Brandon Sproat having been chased out of the game after giving up four runs, Gregory Soto was charged with stopping the bleeding.
Instead, the lefty reliever only served to add to the pain.
Soto allowed a two-run home run to Connor Norby to cap off a miserable six-run inning, effectively sealing a loss that could be fatal come the end of this weekend.
Today’s Game 🗓️
Match-up: Mets (82-78) at Marlins (78-82)
Where: loanDepot Park - Miami, FL
Starters: RHP Clay Holmes (11-8, 3.66 ERA) vs. RHP Eury Pérez (7-5, 4.20 ERA)
When: 4:10 PM EDT
Where to Watch: SNY | MLBN (Out-of-market only)
This Mets team doesn’t deserve your trust, your belief, or your faith ✍️
What else is there left to say?
I mean, truly, what can anyone say after witnessing yet another garbage effort from this team in yet another ugly, embarrassing, unacceptable loss?
I am at a loss for words. And, as my family and friends will quickly tell you, that doesn’t happen very often.
But that’s what the 2025 New York Mets do to you.
They leave you speechless. They leave you mad. They leave you wanting to put a hole through the middle of the TV, before launching it out of the nearest window.
They just leave you exasperated and scratching your head in utter disbelief.
Never was that more true than on Friday night.
Heading into the game with their playoff destiny very much in their own hands, the Mets had a chance to make this weekend significantly easier by picking up a big win and moving a significant step closer to locking up a postseason berth.
Instead, and for the second time this week, the Mets followed up a momentum-shifting win with an absolute clunker that defied logic.
And, as bad and as potentially damaging as last night’s loss was, it was the way in which this team threw the game away that just leaves you utterly perplexed.
After racing out to an early 2-0 lead, the Mets absolutely imploded in a disaster of a fifth inning that could well serve as the microcosm of this entire sorry season.
It was like watching a car crash in slow motion.
Brandon Sproat melted down after a strong start. Gregory Soto came in and couldn’t stop the bleeding, making a bad situation even worse, and then decided to have a sleepover with Ronny Mauricio with a runner on-base, as they both fell asleep with a runner on, who proceeded to run around the bases on them uncontested. Pete Alonso fumbled on a couple of routine plays. Two more runs would score after that to cap off a nightmare six-run inning, an inning that might very well serve as the nail in their coffin and in which the Mets showed once again why they are not a good baseball team.
The non-caliber MLB defense is truly maddening to watch, as is the litany of physical and mental mistakes and errors. At this point, the Mets are going to slop themselves out of the playoffs with just fundamentally bad baseball.
I don’t think even a Little League team would be this bad out in the field.
Oh, and if you want to make an already bleak situation even darker, Baty could be done for the year with an oblique injury. If the infielder does go on the IL, ending his season, then that weakens an already flawed lineup and defensive alignment that can’t seem to get the job done in the biggest spots.
On the subject of the offense, what else can we say about that? After Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso got the scoring started in the first inning, the lineup did absolutely nothing the rest of the way. They went an abysmal 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position, leaving seven runners stranded on base and let a shaky Sandy Alcantara off the hook. Outside of the top three hitters, this lineup is just one big question mark. And, if Baty is ruled out for the rest of the season, then this offense is in big trouble.
What was that famous line from the TV show Mad Men? Oh yeah, “not great Bob, not great!”
And now it comes down to today, and if they survive today, it comes down to tomorrow. The Mets need to win two and the Reds can’t win more than one for the Mets to be playing on Tuesday.
Given what we all saw play out on Friday, and indeed over the last three plus months, do you really have any faith this team is up for a miracle?
Do you really believe that this team has what it takes to save the season from going into the toilet?
Even if they were to pull out a big win later today to stave off elimination for one more day, do you really have complete confidence that this team could then follow that up with another heroic effort on Sunday?
They didn’t even look engaged on Friday night.
And, again, even if this team somehow claws two wins out of nowhere, that might not be enough to save their season. If that’s the case, and if everything comes to an end on Sunday, then the Mets only have themselves to blame.
They’ve squandered chance after chance after chance to end this race and lock up a postseason berth. And yet, time after time after time, this team has crapped the bed and invented horrific new ways in which to lose baseball games.
This team doesn’t deserve your trust, your belief, or your faith.
They now need to do what they’ve failed to do all season, and that’s live up to expectations to try and avoid being a $340 million laughing stock and the specter of yet another in-season collapse hanging over their history.
It’s do-or-die time for the Mets, but I now have zero confidence that they have what it takes to step up and save their season.
What a total embarrassment.
Around the League 🚩
OF Ceddanne Rafaela hit a walk-off triple to help the Red Sox beat the Tigers 4-3 and secure a postseason berth for the first time since 2021
DH Giancarlo Stanton launched a pair of home runs to carry the Yankees to an 8-4 win over the Orioles with the AL East still up for grabs
The Blue Jays moved a step closer to wrapping up the AL East thanks to a 4-2 win over the Rays
OF Mike Trout hit two home runs as the Angels beat the Astros 4-3, with Houston now on the brink of not making the playoffs
Brewers OF Jackson Chourio became the youngest player in MLB history to record multiple 20-20 seasons
OF Pete Crow-Armstrong joined Sammy Sosa as the only Cubs player in franchise history to have 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a single season
Game, Set, Match. The Marlins know exactly what they are doing and have the drive and energy to kill this season and finally put us Mets fans out of our misery. The Reds play early so this game may in fact be meaningless by the time the first pitch is thrown.
If there was ever a team that looked like they couldn't wait to pack up and head home, to the links, to any place except a baseball diamond, they were in Miami last night. 1-8 with RISP in the first 3 innings should have sent us all to Netflix. Miami desperately tries to get us in the game in the 8th with two BBs and an error, but they couldn't wake this team from its collective coma. We'll see some of these guys in Port St Lucie in the spring, but Stearns and Cohen know they can't parade the same product out again next year. They can't keep pissing down our legs and telling us it's raining. Oh well, I wish I could say it's been fun, but it's been exhausting.