Frustrated Mets searching for answers as losing streak reaches eight games
A visibly upset Carlos Mendoza spoke about the state of the Mets after their 8-2 loss to the Dodgers on Wednesday night, the team's eighth straight loss.
The Mets ' losing streak has hit eight games after their 8-2 loss to the Dodgers on Wednesday night. It was a game filled with the offensive outage that has plagued this team for over a week now, a bullpen implosion and miscues in the field and basepaths that have become daily for this squad after the first 19 games of the season. All of that has led manager Carlos Mendoza, visibly upset, to state the obvious about his team after another lackluster defeat.
"We’re not playing good baseball right now," Mendoza said. "Everybody’s frustrated. We gotta use the off day tomorrow to regroup and get back at it because we gotta get going here.
It’s not a good showing right now. " The Mets scored just two runs on five hits -- the second run coming in the ninth inning after the game was well in hand -- on Wednesday night. In the three-game series, New York scored just three runs and collected 12 hits.
The Dodgers had 12 hits in Wednesday's game alone. "I don’t really wrap my mind around it. It’s tough right now," Bo Bichette said of the team's losing streak after the game.
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