Dammit! Jeurys Familia’s consecutive saves streak couldn’t go on forever, but of all the games, it had to be this one?! This game will go down as one of those soul crushing, heartbreaking defeats that Mets fans have had to endure more than their fair share of over the years.
Logan Verrett kept the Mets in the game allowing three runs over seven innings but the Mets bats again struggled to come through leaving men on base inning after inning against Adam Wainwright. In the bottom of the 7th, the Mets again put men on base, and after one runner scored on a wild pitch to close the gap to 3-2, Yoenis Cespedes came up and the most epic at bat of the season ensued. Wainwright, at well over 100 pitches, dug deep and threw everything he had at Cespedes, who kept following off fastballs, cutters and big breaking curves. With a 3-2 count Wainwright tried to drop in another one of his hammer curves but Cespedes crushed it for a 2-run homer to give the Mets the lead. The second he connected, batter, pitcher and every fan in attendance and watching at home, knew it was a goner.
Addison Reed continued to own the eighth inning with another scoreless frame. Familia came in to lock it down in the 9th as he has done so many times the past two years, but this was finally not his night, allowing two walks and two doubles by nemesis Yadier Molina and Kolten Wong.
The loss drops the Mets back to 5.5 games behind the Nationals and 1.5 games behind the Marlins who both freakin’ won today. The good news is we now start a 4-game home series against the Colorado Rockies before the Yankees come to town.
Unless the Mets stop spinning their wheels soon, the season will be lost!
Killer loss. Not because the other losses were better, but because they squandered chances for runs with two outs in three straight innings, but overcame that with Cespedes’ blast. Would have been a great win, but instead it’s a heart breaking loss.
Glad to see Walker have a 3-3 game, which he needs more than the home runs. Granderson continues to be a lead weight in the ankle of this offense. He has to be moved down and they need to stop living in yesterday. Flores and Conforto hit the ball hard with RISP once each, but, “it wasn’t where they weren’t.”
Is TDA allowed to bat higher than eighth? How about putting Granny down there already?
With last night’s 0-4, Granny is slashing .278/.361/.458 in July and he had five hits (and two walks) in the three games before Wednesday night.
If only the rest of the team were equally a lead weight…