{"id":317856,"date":"2021-08-07T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-mets-collapse-doesnt-have-to-end-like-the-others\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T05:50:06","slug":"this-mets-collapse-doesnt-have-to-end-like-the-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-mets-collapse-doesnt-have-to-end-like-the-others\/","title":{"rendered":"#This Mets collapse doesn’t have to end like the others"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This Mets collapse doesn’t have to end like the others<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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On the subject of Mets collapses, it was easier to assign blame in the bad old days. When people were tired of ripping into Fred Wilpon, his son Jeff was always available to absorb some well-earned shots to the ribs.<\/p>\n

Now, things aren\u2019t as black-and-white. The new man in charge, Steve Cohen, projects a can-do vibe that runs counter to the Wilpons\u2019 loserville touch and deserves a fair-and-square chance to build his program. But on Friday night, before his team lost for the seventh time in nine game<\/a>s and fell out of first place for the first time since May 7, this one 4-2 in Philadelphia, perhaps the rookie owner made a rookie mistake.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow about a little positive energy for this weekend?\u201d Cohen tweeted. \u201cI\u2019m feeling the offense is going to get it going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The offense delivered two runs and five hits in a loss that handed the Phillies control of the NL East. It\u2019s never a good idea for any Met to predict a run of crunch-time prosperity, not when there\u2019s been so little of it over the years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s official: The Mets are indeed collapsing. They held a five-game divisional lead in late June, and a four-game divisional last week, and now they are just another second-place, 56-53 club. If the regular season had ended after Friday night\u2019s games, the Mets would have missed the playoffs for a fifth straight season.<\/p>\n

The good news<\/a>? The only good news? The Mets still have time to do something about it.<\/p>\n

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Pete Alonso at the Mets fell out of first place on Friday.<\/figcaption>
Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No, that wasn\u2019t always the case for this franchise. Toward that end, the Mets\u2019 2007 face-plant took the cake.<\/p>\n

Those Mets became the first team ever to blow a seven-game divisional lead with 17 games to play, delivering an epic choke job down the stretch while facing three teams (the Marlins, Nationals, and Cardinals) that finished a combined 42 games south of .500 and a combined 41 games out of first place. The Mets played their final seven games at home and lost six of them, including a must-have finale defined by the seven first-inning runs the Marlins scored off a man with 303 victories to his name, Tom Glavine, who recorded only one out. The Mets handed the division to the white-hot Phillies, and didn\u2019t even qualify for the wild card.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a tough life lesson in baseball,\u201d said their manager, Willie Randolph.<\/p>\n