New York Mets, back at home and looking to rebound, bungle the 9th inning, lose their 12th straight game
"It's tough. I don't know,” Devin Williams admitted after the game. “I've never been a part of something like this.
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NEW YORK — MVP chants, loud ones, thundered down tongue-in-cheek from a peeved and restless Citi Field crowd as journeyman reliever Austin Warren bounded his way back to the dugout. It was an odd scene: The anonymous right-hander, the opposite of a household name, a guy with just 10 innings as a New York Met, getting showered with affection from a sparse, frigid, April crowd in a game his club had just bungled away. Warren entered the proceedings in place of star closer Devin Williams, who, with the score knotted at three in the ninth, allowed two runs and failed to record a single out.
The unlikely hero then proceeded to strike out three consecutive Minnesota Twins to give the Mets a chance at redemption in the bottom of the frame. In unison, the crowd hollered: “AUS-TIN WAR-REN. ” But not even gallows humor could save the tailspinning Mets , who somehow lost their 12th consecutive ballgame on Tuesday, a gut-churning, 5-3 defeat to Minnesota .
"It's tough. I don't know,” Williams admitted after the game. “I've never been a part of something like this.
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