One step forward, two steps back.
The Mets’ offense appeared to have found their footing in recent games, but they’ve quickly returned to their feeble ways down in Miami.
New York struck against Marlins righty Eury Perez on a Juan Soto homer in the first inning of Friday’s series opener, but managed just three baserunners the rest of the way.
They followed that with an even worse showing on Saturday.
Max Meyer had just about everything working as he held the Mets to three walks and a 64 mph opposite-field single across his seven shutout innings of work.
New York was held to only that hit until a Tyrone Taylor pinch-hit double in the ninth, followed by a Mark Vientos RBI single that finally got them on the board.
That was the Mets’ first at-bat with a runner in scoring position over the first 18 innings of this weekend set, and it was quickly wasted as A.J. Ewing grounded out to end the game.
They now have just two runs on six hits and four walks in the pair of losses.
“We’re better, we’ve seen that,” Carlos Mendoza said. “We’ve ran into two pretty good arms the past couple of days.”
“Obviously we haven’t done what we’ve wanted at the plate, but you gotta give credit where credit is due,” Vientos added. “The pitchers we’ve faced have been doing their thing.”
Both Perez and Meyer were certainly at their best, but this continues a season-long skid in which the Mets have managed to score one run or less in a league-worst 14 games.
With these last two, they’ve now dropped four of their last five.
Now 1.5 games back in the basement of the NL East, though, they know they have to turn the page quickly.
“You can’t sit here and feel sorry for yourself,” Mendoza said. “You gotta keep going.”
“Once 12 o’clock hits tomorrow, it’s a new day,” Vientos added. “Today is in the past and we have to focus on tomorrow and come back and win the game tomorrow.”
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