The change in venue from Boston to Milwaukee did absolutely nothing to inspire the Mets to play better baseball. The Brewers opened the series with a 5-1 win Friday night.
The game started off on the right foot, as Brandon Nimmo led off the game with a triple. Despite that, and the fact that the Brewers’ starter threw 39 pitches in the inning, the Mets only scored one run.
Five pitches into the bottom of the first, the game was tied, as Tylor Megill gave up the first of three home runs he would allow in 4 IP.
Meanwhile, the Mets went 12 straight batters without reaching a base, until Nimmo walked. Then six more batters went down in order until Jeff McNeil broke the streak with an infield single. The Mets ended the game with eight of their last nine batters making outs, a streak only broken by a two-out Javier Baez single in the eighth.
The game was such a ho-hum affair that Edwin Diaz was able to pitch a scoreless ninth inning on the road in a non-save situation.
The Mets finished with just four hits and two walks on the night. They went 1-3 with runners in scoring position but of course it was a hit that didn’t score a runner from second. The Mets’ only run came on an infield groundout.
Just got back from (over) two weeks of camping & touring National Parks in Utah…….from the current situation of my Mets; glad I wasn’t around to be daily aggravated by how this season is ending. Does anyone really hope that Cohen can change the culture of this organization and help steer it to a class act that has (traditionally) been what the Braves or Cardinals have created? Heck, I’d settle for the crass act that has been the Yankees! They always seem to make the right moves to be winners.
What a sad point we’ve reached when we admire – and desire to emulate – The Evil Empire. Ya know, I think that their luck has been unusually good over their history. Perhaps harder times are a-coming…
I’m hoping that Steve Cohen is watching every inning of every game and is as disgusted as we all are. This team is like paper cut-outs standing on the field in Milwaukee, playing out the season, gettin paid to show up and not much else. Luis Rojas has that lame duck look… out of ideas and nowhere to turn to make his team play better. Of course playing JD Davis against the LHer might have been smart. He could have turned that slicing ball into a triple as well as McNeil did in LF, and he might have kept Lorenzo Cain from tagging up on a routine fly ball to left field! I guess the word’s out on McNeil… just keep on running… like with Nimmo.
Looks like Villar right be out of gas. McCann too. A paper cut out at the plate.