Mets have unique connection to another historic losing streak: ‘This is all oddly familiar’
The Mets will try to become the fifth team in MLB history to lose 10-plus games in a row and still make the playoffs.
CHICAGO — When bench coach Kai Correa walked through the Mets ' clubhouse in his street clothes shortly after Sunday’s devastating walk-off loss to the Cubs, it was quiet. The only sounds were running water from the bathroom and the occasional squeak of shower shoes. Some players sat in silence at their lockers.
After their 11th straight loss, the Mets’ 7-15 record ties them with the Royals for the worst in baseball. Everything is going wrong. Yet, Correa has been here before — and not long ago.
Just last summer, Correa made that same stroll through the visiting clubhouse in Chicago after the Guardians got swept by the Cubs, part of a 10-game losing streak of their own. He was Cleveland’s field coordinator at the time. In the series finale, the Guardians also lost on a walk-off sacrifice fly with one out in the 10th inning.
“This is all oddly familiar for me,” Correa told NJ. com before loss No. 11 on Sunday at Wrigley Field.
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