{"id":58614,"date":"2020-09-02T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-have-the-stink-of-a-team-playing-out-the-string\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T06:40:00","slug":"mets-have-the-stink-of-a-team-playing-out-the-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-have-the-stink-of-a-team-playing-out-the-string\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets have the stink of a team playing out the string"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mets have the stink of a team playing out the string<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The season leaks away bit by bit, day by day. It happ<\/a>ens this way to bad baseball teams once they\u2019ve given up the ghost. September can be the cruelest kind of gauntlet, 30 days that feel like 300 when reality sets in and you are merely playing out the string. <\/p>\n

It shouldn\u2019t be that way for the Mets, of course, not in a short season, not when baseball\u2019s New Math keeps insisting they are still within shouting distance of a playoff berth. It shouldn\u2019t feel the way it\u2019s felt the past few days, even as the record sinks six game<\/a>s below .500, even as the Baltimore Orioles have their way with them up and down this 9-5 pounding at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n

But there is the way it should be and the way that it is.<\/p>\n

It should be that on the first night of September, the Mets have a better option than handing the ball to Ariel Jurado, who spent most of his time serving up tasty room-service speedballs to the Orioles, digging the Mets a couple of deep early holes. It should be that the Mets, however depleted, have it in them to beat the Marlins and the Orioles \u2014 losers of a combined 213 games last year \u2014 on back-to-back days when victories have become absolutely essential.<\/p>\n

The way that it is?<\/p>\n

There are no gimmes on the Mets schedule; the Mets are the gimmes. There are no soft spots for the Mets. The Mets are the soft spot. <\/p>\n

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Renato Nunez belts a three-run homer in the first inning of the Mets\u2019 9-5 loss to the Orioles, despite Brandon Nimmo\u2019s best effort.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It seems impossible that it was late Saturday afternoon when the Mets were coming off a doubleheader sweep, when Wilson Ramos had clobbered one off the left-field fair-pole screen at Yankee Stadium to pull even with the Yankees, threatening to actually drag themselves to. 500, the holy-grail benchmark in this truncated campaign.<\/p>\n

Then Dellin Betances launched a Ryne Duren fastball to the screen, and the Yankees trolled the Mets to a pair of extra-innings losses, and the Marlins knocked a little of the pixie dust off Jacob deGrom, and Luis Rojas handed the ball over to Ariel Jurado.<\/p>\n

Life comes at you pretty fast sometimes. And when you\u2019re playing bad baseball, the game can speed past you in a blur. The Mets are playing bad baseball right now. They insist that you not look at them as a bad baseball team but as the season leaks away bit by bit, day by day, that\u2019s becoming a harder position to defend.<\/p>\n

The Orioles are bad, too, and they\u2019ve been playing especially lousy lately, but there are no expectations attached to them. They have a bunch of anonymous guys who swing from the heels and figure maybe they\u2019ll just outslug you. <\/p>\n

The Mets got their swings in. Jeff McNeil had three hits. Robinson Cano hit another home run. Andres Gimenez hit his first big-league homer, briefly tying the game at 5-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys always fight,\u201d manager Luis Rojas said.<\/p>\n

But it is never a proper consolation prize to praise professional ballplayers for fighting, for trying, for not phoning games in. That\u2019s in the contract. That\u2019s part of the deal. Losing teams don\u2019t usually lose because they aren\u2019t trying. They lose because they become proficient at playing bad baseball. They lose because they do too many things poorly.<\/p>\n

They lose because they look the way the Mets have looked for long swatches of the season. That doesn\u2019t mean the season is over: the arithmetic won\u2019t allow it. In the same way this five-game losing streak has turned the season upside down, a five-game winning streak can turn it right side up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at every day as a must-win,\u201d Rojas said, and that\u2019s the way a manager is supposed to talk, and that\u2019s the way the team is supposed to feel, especially when there\u2019s still time, still games, still an opportunity to change the narrative.<\/p>\n

But Aug. 1 became Sept. 1 in an awful hurry, and Sept. 1 will become Sept. 27 even quicker. Something has to change. Something has to give. As the season leaks away bit by bit, day by day, the Mets eventually have to prove that there\u2019s something there besides hopeful math. Something besides a string to play out.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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