12 Straight Losses and the Mets Still Won't Go Away: Inside the Numbers Behind Baseball's Most Brutal Collapse
The New York Mets are in free fall. Twelve games without a win. The worst record in baseball at 7-16. A losing streak that started on April 8 and kept rolling through Tuesday's gut-punch at Citi Field. But here's the thing: it's not over. Not yet. Not according to Francisco Lindor, who knows exactly how dire things look right now.
"We're all very aware of it, you know," Lindor said of the skid. "But at the end of the day ... we have to come out and bring it."
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Devin Williams signed as a free agent this winter to be the guy. The closer. The stopper. Through April 7, he was perfect: a spotless ERA over five appearances. Then the losing streak started and everything went sideways. In his last three outings, Williams has surrendered seven runs over just 1 and one-third innings. That's not a slump. That's a catastrophe happening in real time.
Tuesday night against Minnesota was the worst of it. Williams faced five batters, retired none of them, walked three, and gave up the final two runs that ended the game. He didn't even get a blown save on the books because the Mets were tied when he came in. Just a loss. Just another one.
Six Leads Squandered: The Real Story of This Collapse
Here's what makes this streak truly maddening: the Mets have lost six games during these 12 losses after having the lead at some point. Six different ways to lose that should never happen. Tuesday was one of those, with starter Nolan McLean pitching brilliantly before manager Carlos Mendoza probably left him in too long. The bullpen is stretched thin. Guys are down. So they pushed McLean further than they wanted to, hoping he'd hold up. He didn't, not quite.
"We had a couple of our guys down," Mendoza explained. "We knew we were going to push him. We felt good with where he was at."
The problem is obvious: the relief staff is in pieces, and when you can't close out games you're winning, you don't stay in games very long. The Mets have discovered this the hard way, 12 times in a row.
Lindor is right. It's not over. But this homestand is massive. The margin for error has vanished.
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