{"id":40687,"date":"2020-08-05T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-are-spiraling-so-there-are-no-moral-victories\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T04:18:00","slug":"mets-are-spiraling-so-there-are-no-moral-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-are-spiraling-so-there-are-no-moral-victories\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets are spiraling, so there are no moral victories"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mets are spiraling, so there are no moral victories<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n For some, the story can be told exclusively in grit and feistiness \u2014 your Miami Marlins, for example. The Marlins have no players, they hadn\u2019t played a game<\/a> in nine days before Tuesday night, and yet they shut out the Orioles, 4-0. Now, the 2020 O\u2019s will never be confused for the ones of championship vintage, but still. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s some serious grit.<\/p>\n

The Mets aren\u2019t afforded such things. Not with the team they have, not with the expectations they harbor. So yes, if it makes you feel better as a fan to see how the Mets, with half a lineup, were able to stay very much in a game the Nationals should have run away with, knock yourself out.<\/p>\n

But as a wise man once said about another pro sport in town: There are no medals for trying. And the fact that 5-0 Nats, ended up 5-3 Nats, instead of 11-2 Nats is of some small, hollow consolation right now, truth be told. The season isn\u2019t even two weeks old and it already feels exhausted. That wasn\u2019t how this was supposed to go at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t sense we\u2019re pressing,\u201d Mets manager Luis Rojas said. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe there should be. There is urgency attached to every game, and thus the notion that the Mets are in a lot of the games they wind up losing is of little consequence. In truth, it gets a little scary to hear Rojas say things like this: \u201cThe guys battled. They competed right to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brian Dozier is tagged out by Trea Turner after trying to steal second base in the eighth inning of the Mets\u2019 5-3 loss to the Nationals on Tuesday.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because that one comes straight out of the Rich Kotite Quotebook. And that\u2019s not exactly the gold-standard anyone wants to point to.<\/p>\n

Are they hurt? Sure, they\u2019re hurt. Robinson Cano, who is hitting .400, landed on the injured list before the game. Jeff McNeil and Amed Rosario weren\u2019t available. You take out three-quarters of any team\u2019s infield, it\u2019s going to hurt.<\/p>\n

So what the Mets could have used was a solid effort from Steven Matz, their purported No. 2 starter. What they got, instead, was the kind of inexplicable stinker Matz has thrown into the mix far too often across the years, a non-competitive three innings in which he put the team in a 5-0 hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy fastball kept leaking back over the plate today,\u201d Matz lamented, and Rojas added: \u201cHe didn\u2019t have his usual zip behind the ball.\u201d Whatever the cause, it all came at the worst possible time.<\/p>\n

What the Mets could have used, after getting a taste of them Monday night in Atlanta, were a few well-timed hits after they sliced that 5-0 lead to 5-3. There were plenty of opportunities. But there the score stood, frozen to the end. <\/p>\n

Nobody is going to feel sorry for the Mets, so they can\u2019t afford to pity themselves. Nobody is going to weep for them if they continue to spin their wheels and bury themselves deeper in the muck. Feel good about the positives last night: the bullpen with six scoreless innings, Pete Alonso with an RBI single, Michael Conforto with a home run.<\/p>\n

The Mets are supposed to be beyond that point. They aren\u2019t the Marlins. They were never supposed to be about feel-good, just good.<\/p>\n

And right now, they\u2019re a long way from good.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what the standings say,\u201d Matz said, \u201cbut we still have time to do something pretty special things this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe. But unless they figure out a way to get the horse turned around quickly \u2014 starting (yikes!) with facing Max Scherzer on Wednesday night \u2014 well \u2026 it could get late early. Even earlier than usual.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things you have to have in this game is to recover quick,\u201d Rojas had said earlier in the day, before he knew for sure if he\u2019d have access to his banged-up players or not. \u201cIt\u2019s tough to lose three guys like that regularly in your lineup. Plus, they were all swinging good bats. All you can do is knock wood and hope it\u2019s a minimal thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consider it one more thing to deal with for a rookie manager, in what is a daily checklist of chuckles. On Sunday he got to see up close what happ<\/a>ened when an unhappy baseball marriage ends, the Mets and Yoenis Cespedes finally succumbing to irreconcilable differences. Early Tuesday morning the Mets\u2019 team plane arrived in Washington seconds ahead of an epic storm, but not before bouncing it all over the sky. <\/p>\n

And a few hours later he was pondering a lineup \u2014 once thought to be circular and deep \u2014 that ultimately included Tomas Nido, Andres Gimenez, Brian Dozier and Ryan Cordell. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis game,\u201d Rojas said, \u201cis all about adversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

We still know very little about the Mets\u2019 new skipper but give him this: He is a quick learner.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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