New series brings more of the same for Mets…
If the Mets keep blowing leads like this, they’ll blow the entire season.
Friday evening’s 11-9 loss to the Mariners at Citi Field featured yet another occasion of the Mets’ lack of ability to defend a lead in a month that has been chock full of them. It wasn’t just once, either, but twice in this high-scoring affair in Flushing.
The not-so-Amazin’s bullpen has blown 11 leads in seven straight video games.
This is just the second time in the last 17 years that the Mets have coughed up a lead in seven consecutive contests. The last time they’d a stretch like this was when they flushed a lead in eight straight video games in a misplaced 2023 marketing campaign.
“Bottom line, we got to start playing better,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza said after the recreation. “Especially when you get the lead, we’ve got to be able to shut those games down. And again, too much talent back there. You’re talking about 6-7 guys that have closing experience and are capable of getting the last three outs of a game… They’re going through it right now and like I’m going to keep saying, our job is to get it back on track.”
Ryan Helsley had another tough evening for the Mets on Aug. 15, 2025. Robert Sabo for NY Post
After dropping their one-run lead to Cal Raleigh’s two-run homer into the second deck in left discipline in the third inning, the Mets’ meltdown got here proper on cue in the seventh inning. The two-run lead they’d constructed in the fourth might have dwindled to one, 6-5, coming into the seventh, but the Mets haven’t been ready to dangle on to any benefit recently, no matter the dimension.
Ryan Helsley, recent off dropping an eighth-inning lead in Thursday’s loss to the Braves, only confronted three batters as the Mariners whacked two doubles to tie the recreation at 6-6.
The Mets finally limped out of the seventh inning trailing 10-6.
Brooks Raley supplied no reduction in the Mets’ loss on Friday. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
So why has this continued to occur?
“We have all asked that question,” Francisco Lindor said. “It’s robust to level at one factor, you already know? We are all attempting to win ballgames. All I can suppose of proper now is that we’re not clicking at the same time, and the other workforce is outplaying us. Mendy is correct, we’ve a lot of expertise. We have a lot of good people right here.
“We’re having a tough stretch, we’re not having a terrible season. Everybody has the sense of urgency to try to get out of it. Somehow, someway we’re not coming out on top at the end of the day.”
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