Pitiful Mets show no signs of life with time running out: 'This game eats you up'
Mets show little improvement in NL East standings and time becomes a concern.
PHOENIX — The New York Mets sat in dead silence Sunday afternoon. No music. No TV.
No conversation. The only sound was chop sticks snatching sushi off plates, the packing of bags, and the shuffling of feet out of the visiting clubhouse, down the corridor and towards the team buses. The Mets, after spending 10 days on the beaches of Southern California, the snow-capped mountains in Colorado and the desert in Arizona, are finally going home.
And they return to New York the same miserable, underachieving team that left. Their only dignity leaving Phoenix was that they didn’t suffer the humiliation of being no-hit, losing to the Arizona Diamondbacks , 5-1, producing a combined total of nine hits and three runs in regulation during the three games at Chase Field. Their three hits and two runs in the 10 th inning in their 3-1 Friday victory saved their weekend from being a complete disaster.
They managed to make Diamondbacks starter Eduardo Rodriguez, Merrill Kelly and Ryne Nelson look like Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling and Brandon Webb of D-backs’ lore. The D-backs trio, who entered the weekend with a 5. 50 ERA, yielded a 1.
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