Well, we knew the Mets were doomed when Pete hit their third HR of the game, right? Sure, the Mets dropping the last two in Cleveland despite three dingers in each game was the first time any team had done that all season, and three straight 3-HR losses had only happened 4 previous times in all of MLB history, but come on, now! We know our Mets!

(Again, MLB teams that hit 3 HRs have a .783 winning percentage this season. So the chance of losing three consecutive 3-HR games is only .0102. But 100-1 odds against is nothing to the Most Expensive Team, Suckers! Go team, go!)

Honestly, I was shocked that JD and Mark "À" Vientos going back-to-back jacks was the first time the Mets had done that all year. Didn't Frankie and Pete hit a combined 80 or so taters last season? You'd think they would have done it at least once by now.

And of course the Mets loaded the bases with 1 out in the 9th, but we know what the Six Most Common Words in English are, right?

"Mets Threaten, But Fail to Score".

History, lads! History!!!

Well, rewatching that game on Saturday morning can suck the air out of you for the whole weekend.

I want to lie down again.

I just want to lie down again.

You didn't stay up until 01.00 to enjoy the glory?

Actually it's better this way, you didn't want to be nodding off in the middle of the excitement. This way you were fresh and alert for every nuance. (Yay?)

On the slightly-bright side, once again the Bobby Bragan Special lineup is generating a decent amount of runs. (Lindor is even contributing.) True, the dumpster fire-sale pitching staff isn't exactly turning the support into wins, but at least there's one part of the game going reasonably well, previous fears aside.

(Yes, I have just ensured that the Mets will now be shut out for the next 50 or so innings. I'm aware of that.)

I guess Boom-Boom can give up enough runs in the top 9th so that the Mets can still hit a homer in the bottom 9th and still lose, and thus become the first team in MLB history to lose four straight games in which they homered three times.

(kneads his emotional support plush raccoon)

For those who didn't get all the deets, yes, it was THAT bad.

On the pregame, the Eternal Optimists tried to make much of the fact that while the Mets were 6-15 in May (6-16 now), they were 5-10 in close (1 or 2-run) games. So if they can just squeeze a few more wins, everything will be fine!

Er, no, guys. Not how it works. That 5-10 in close games means that the Most Expensive Team, Suckers! is only 1-5 in games where somebody dominates. (1-6 after today's collapse.) If you are far more likely to be the ass-kickee rather than the ass-kicker, you shouldn't expect to pull out the close ones.

To quote the old saying, "Good Teams Find a Way to Win; Bad Teams Find a Way to Lose." Hanging on in quiet desperation may be "the English way", to quote Pink Floyd, but it's not a good long-term proposition.

From a 1985 NFL betting diary: "If the games were 50 minutes long, the Bills would be playoff contenders." Yeah, but the reason the Bills kept folding (yswidt?) was because they just didn't have the horses.

At least, Edlose Diaz is still part of a horse…

From the MSN game recap, linked above.

Aside from how ridiculous the sentence sounds in a historical context (**** you, Rob Manfred), just consider how the "ghost runner" perverts the basic spirit of the game…the idea that if you get into trouble, you have a chance to get yourself out of it.

Give up a lead-off triple? Strike out the next three guys to save your butt.
Give up 3 runs in the top of the 9th and trail 9-5? Score 5 off of the visiting team's "closer" and it's a W for you.

Every time a pitcher steps on the mound to start a new inning, it's a clean slate. As long as he keeps the ball in the ballpark, he gets to redeem his mistakes.

But thanks to Manly Manfred's Moronic Murdering, now you step out there, and one little single on the first pitch can put you behind. (Cost you the game, if this is the home 10th.) What garbage.

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Hey, remember how the Mets led the National League in ERA? Well, heading into yesterday's disaster, the Mets ranked 18th of 30 teams in ERA. The Glory that was April's 12-3 streak is long, long, gone.

Mets season, in three acts (so far):

0-5
12-3
9-21

Yoicks.

Not that I want to take away from your hate for Rob Numbfred, baseball's foremost fiend, it was always possible to score on a leadoff single... give or take a few errors by the defense on the play. :p:p

WRT the "highlights" of the Mets disaster in the 10th yesterday…how does Lindor dropping an easily-catchable throw become an error on Alonso, exactly?

Apparently even the official scorer wants Pete to punch that ticket out of town. Grrr.

Kodai Senga "shut down 3-5 days with triceps inflammation".

RIP season. RIP career. RIP arm.

(Citifield quietly crumbles into a heap of rubble)

On the plus side, the Mets won. In dramatic fashion, even!

Yes, it's silly to get excited over a single win, especially when it involves Omar Minayez getting his first hit in 28 Corrupt Bank Field ABs. But given how rare such victories are, they should be celebrated.

We might not have another chance until June, after all.

Too bad about Senga, but everybody has injuries. Ronald Acuña apparently hurt his knee in Pittsburgh today. Which means there is a sliver of a chance that Luisangel might soon be the only Acuña in the league! Domination!

Tylor Megill pitches 7 excellent innings, Tyrone Taylor saves a home run, Tyson Lindor powers a homer, and the Mets lead 2-0 going to the 8th in Game 1.

Of course, the bullpen promptly blows it, giving the Metsies an MLB-worst 7 blown saves in May, Harrison Bader can't bring in the winning run from 3B with one out and a 3-0 count in the bottom of the 9th, and the Mets collapse in the 10th. Loss #1 gives the team a May record of 3-6 when leading after 7 innings.

Carlos Mendoza Line somehow holds a presser between games (er, Carlos? Isn't there another game you need to prepare for?) and talks about his decision to bypass Edlose Diaz in favor of Adam 0ttavin0 to close. Somehow, Mendoza Line fails to note that 0ttavin0 now has a 6.75 ERA and 1.93 WHIP in his last 10 outings and might not be the best option either, Diaz or no Diaz.

Mets get shut out on 3 hits in the Twi-Night cap, accumulating a grand total of 7 safeties in 19 innings on the day. (Fabulous Freddie Freeman had 5 hits all by himself.)

Jeff McNeil, who looked to be rounding into form on the road trip, is now 2-for-17 on the homestand and popping up pretty much every time. GKR suggest it might be due to how the 32-year-old Squirrel has to play every single inning of every game because David "Wild Turkey" Stearns is apparently too drunk to notice that we don't have a reserve middle infielder on the roster, and McNeil is thus getting ground down. In MAY. Way to go, GM!

Mets have now lost 8 of 9, and are 10-24 after their 12-8 start. if they continue to play at the recent .294 pace, they will finish 55-107 on the season. With the highest payroll in MLB.

FFS.

Man, my dreams get funnier every day! :D

What do you mean, "it's not a dream"??? :ohmy::ohmy::ohmy:

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StatMuse rocks!

Familia and Edlose and Luis Avilan and even Gsellman…was 2019 fun or what?

ETA: More of "Boom-Boom" at his boomiest!

That HR/9 column is bollocks. It simply divides their homers (not that 15 bombs in a year isn't ghastly for a reliever) by 9 instead of multiplying it by 9/IP. Boom-Boom actually gave up 2.33 HR/9. Browsing, only Goeddel in 2017 should be worse (2.46/9).

Sorry, that's my bad, since I wrote the question. GIGO at its worst.

If you can get the site to tell you HR per 9 IP, please post it.

I didn't know that site existed until an hour ago, I might struggle with that. :laugh:

Edlose Diaz to the Incompetent, er, "Injured" List with a shoulder impingement.

So now it's Ottavi-NO's time to shine?

Taking Diaz's slot on the roster is a returning David Peterson, now with beard! Feel the excitement!

Peeete hit in the paw with a pitch in the first inning, leaves the game.

Not that I want Pete to have to go on the Imperiled List, but do you think that Stearns would finally bring up a middle infielder so the DP combo can rest? Never mind how the Squirrel is clearly suffering, there is $341,000.000 worth of shortstop out there that might need some rest, now and then.

(Our luck, they'll promote Ji-Man Choi, instead.)

Mets lineup today against LHP James "Eh?" Paxton: 7 righties, the switch-swinging Lindor, and McNeil. Because they can't play anyone else at the slot. I swear, the OOTP engine would have remedied this already.