It can’t get much worse for the Mets right now.
Team owner Steve Cohen has been fairly silent throughout the team’s brutal second half of June, but he finally had some words Monday morning amid the struggles.
“Tough stretch, no sugarcoating it. I didn’t see this coming,” Cohen posted to X. “I’m as frustrated as everybody else. We will get through this period. Our injured pitching will come back over the next few weeks. It is unlikely the team’s hitting with RISP will continue at this weak pace. Keep the faith!”
The Mets are coming off perhaps their most concerning losses yet in this weekend’s series sweep at the hands of the lowly Pirates.
The 35-50 Pirates, the NL Central’s bottom-feeders, won all three games at PNC Park in Pittsburgh by wide margins: 9-1, 9-2 and 12-1, respectively.
“We’re all frustrated,” manager Carlos Mendoza said Sunday. “We’re better than that and they know that. It’s a tough stretch and we have got to be better and it starts with me. I continue to support the guys, but obviously we’re not happy about it.”
The Mets even held a players only meeting ahead of Sunday’s series finale, but still wound up losing even worse than the two previous games.
The Mets were 45-24 before this free fall, but have not won a series since June 13, going 3-13 in that span.
The Mets were swept by the Rays, Braves and Pirates, picked up one win against the Phillies and split a separate four-game series against the Braves.
Much of the team’s struggles can be attributed to the starting rotation’s brutal stretch of injury luck, as Griffin Canning, Kodai Senga and Tyler Megill have all gone down with injuries recently, while Sean Manaea has not pitched all season.
“Whether it’s the starting pitching, offense, whether it’s the bullpen or defense, we’re not playing well,” Mendoza said. “We’re better than that.”