FLUSHING, NY — When the going has gotten tough for the Mets this season, it’s gotten even tougher.
Eliminated from postseason contention on the final day of the 2025 regular season campaign, the Mets entered an important six-game stretch starting last Friday against two National League teams responsible for showing them the door to 2025.
First, the Marlins in Miami for three and then in Queens for another three with the Reds.
Looking back, the Marlins beat the Mets two out of three in a pivotal three game set to close out the 2025 regular season. This result helped open the door for Cincinnati as the Reds, finishing with the same overall record as New York at 83-79, while also holding the head-to-head advantage over the Mets, clinched the third and final National League Wild Card spot on a tiebreaker.
Elly De La Cruz and the Reds made the 2025 postseason after advancing on a tiebreaker with the Mets on the final day of the 2025 regular season – Image Credit: Bill Menzel/Latino Sports
With that in mind, one would think the Mets would too. Or at least show some sense of urgency since each and every game matters and ultimately proves to at the end of year.
Though over the course of New York’s first five games in this Marlins-Reds stretch, they have not, dropping all five affairs.
And it has not been pretty in any of them.
Six runs scored and 25 hits recorded as a team as the Marlins and Reds have combined for an offensive output of 24 runs and 43 hits. That’s a run differential of -18…
Putrid numbers but then again, the Mets stood 22-28 before this five-game losing streak, so there wasn’t much to bank on besides the bat of Juan Soto.
And besides the 27-year-old Dominican superstar, a three-time LatinoMVP, missing two games in this stretch due to illness, and still hitting two home runs with three RBI—half of the Mets’ run production—at-bats from top to bottom continue to be lifeless.
By lifeless, does eleven walks across 45 innings do it? How ‘bout 51 strikeouts over that same span?
In Tuesday’s postgame press conference following the Mets’ 7-2 loss to Cincinnati at Citi Field to fall to 22-33 on the year, manager Carlos Mendoza said that the team’s woes at the plate are from “a combination of a lot of things.”
“We thought that we got out of it when we swung the bats last homestand here,” he went on to say. “We go to (Washington) D.C. and put together some really good games and then that series in Miami and the last two nights, it’s been a battle. It’s been a struggle.
“We’ve got to continue to keep going and got to find a way to figure this out because obviously, it’s going to be hard to win games when you’re not scoring runs.”
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