The Mets Just Lost Their 10th Straight and Nobody in Baseball Is Ready For What Comes Next

The New York Mets are in full free fall. After dropping their 10th consecutive game Saturday to the Chicago Cubs, 4-2, this team is staring at its longest April losing streak in franchise history. And here's the brutal part: they have to somehow claw their way back from a hole that only three teams in the divisional era have managed to escape from.

Only three teams since 1969 have made the postseason after a double-digit losing streak. Last year's Cleveland Guardians pulled it off. Can the Mets? The odds say no. But manager Carlos Mendoza isn't throwing in the towel. "No one is going to feel sorry for us," he said after the loss. "We have to keep going. We haven't been playing good baseball. We have 5½ months ahead. We have the opportunity to write our own story."

The Offense Has Gone Ghost Mode

This losing streak has a name: anemic offense. The Mets have scored just 18 runs across these 10 losses. That's the fewest they've managed in any 10-game stretch dating back to June 2018. You can't win games when your bats are that quiet, and Saturday's collapse told the whole story.

Reliever Brooks Raley threw a first pitch cutter to pinch hitter Carson Kelly in the sixth inning. Kelly sent it into the left-field bleachers for a three-run homer that broke a 1-1 tie. Game over. Cubs cruised from there. "We haven't been able to put together a complete game," Mendoza said. "It's either the offense or starting pitching, like not making that pitch, not making a play, not getting a big hit. Just having a hard time playing a complete game right now."

The Job Security Question Lingers

Mendoza's seat isn't hot yet. President of baseball operations David Stearns said Friday that he thinks his third-year manager is doing solid work and putting players in position to succeed. But we all know how fast that changes when losses pile up. The Mets missed the postseason last year after a disastrous second half. They can't afford a repeat.

Infielder Marcus Semien is trying to keep perspective. "It's a big boy league," he said. "There is no time to dwell on tonight. Tomorrow is a new day. It's as simple as showing up tomorrow with a good attitude. Hopefully other guys see a smile on my face when I show up."

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