It does not seem like overstatement to state the Mets all of a sudden appear like a dead-team walking.
And yet practically as astounding as their futility at the plate today, these very same Mets might still clinch a Wild Card area as early as Sunday.
That is, if they’re ever going to swing the bats once again like the group that for so long had the very best record in the majors after June 1. And at this moment, undoubtedly no one who has actually seen them play today would bank on that.
Momentum in baseball can turn rapidly, as these 2024 Mets have actually shown themselves this season.
Do they have another turn-around in them?
It does not seem like it, that’s for sure, after the Mets have actually lost 3 straight vital video games without even installing much of a battle.
Yes, after such a feel-good season this group has actually raised all the old history of heartbreak that makes Mets’ fans feel their group is cursed, whether it’s ’98, ’07, ’22 or any variety of other deadly surfaces for many years.
It simply didn’t appear possible these Mets would enter the tank with all the cash on the table. They were playing too well. Exuding with self-confidence. Playing a few of their finest baseball versus the much better groups in both leagues.
And now this.
They’ve lost 3 directly, consisting of Saturday night’s 6-0 defeat by the Brewers in Milwaukee, however it’s more the method they’ve lost that is so disconcerting.
They have not struck at all, appearing like a group feeling the big-game pressure in this last week of the season.
You can state the minute has actually looked too huge for them or you can state it more roughly: that they seem choking once again.
It’s an unclean word in sports and not one to be utilized gently however exists any other method in which to frame it? Specifically with a minimum of a few of the exact same crucial gamers, Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo, and Pete Alonso, who were on the group that stopped working so terribly at the end of the ’22 season.
And if you didn’t believe all of this was threatening enough, think about how the Atlanta Braves won their video game on Saturday: with none aside from Travis d’Arnaud striking a walk-off crowning achievement to beat the Kansas City Royals, moving them one video game ahead of the Mets in the NL Wild Card standings.
How is it that the Braves constantly appear to discover methods to win video games at this time of the year? What is their secret sauce anyhow and will the Mets ever discover their own?
Sep 28, 2024; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; New York Mets supervisor Carlos Mendoza makes a pitching modification in the 8th inning versus the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field./ Benny Sieu-Imagn Images
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