Mets lifeless for second straight game as offensive woes return in Miami

One step forward, two steps back. The Mets ’ offense appeared to have found their footing during their recent homestand, but they’ve quickly returned to their feeble ways down in Miami. New York struck against Marlins righty Eury Perez on a Juan Soto homer in the first inning of Friday’s series opener, but managed just three baserunners the rest of the way.

They followed that with an even worse showing on Saturday. Max Meyer had just about everything working as he held the Mets to three walks and a 64 mph opposite-field single across his seven shutout innings of work. New York was held to only that hit until a Tyrone Taylor pinch-hit double in the top of the ninth, followed by a Mark Vientos RBI single that finally get them on the board.

That was the Mets’ first at-bat with a runner in scoring position over the first 18 innings of this weekend set, and it was quickly wasted as A. J. Ewing grounded out to end the game .

They now have just two runs on six hits and four walks in the pair of losses. “We’re better, we’ve seen that,” Carlos Mendoza said. “We’ve ran into two pretty good arms the past couple of days.