Carson Benge went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. So did A.J. Ewing. The Mets were one out away from getting one-hit on Saturday before Tyrone Taylor doubled and Mark Vientos singled to spoil a shutout.
The offense was missing in Miami for a second straight game as the last-place New York Mets (22-30) lost 4-1 in front of 21,071 at loanDepot park.
“The past couple games, we’ve faced some good pitching,” Vientos said after going 2-for-3 (The rest of the Mets were 1-for-26). “Obviously, we haven’t done what we wanted at the plate. But you got to give credit where credit is due. The pitchers that we’ve faced, they’ve been doing their thing. We’re gonna just come tomorrow and come back strong.”
One day after Eury Pérez threw 6 1/3 innings of one-run ball, Max Meyer struck out eight over seven scoreless frames. The Mets have scored one run on three hits in back-to-back games. They struck out 11 times on Saturday and drew three walks. On Friday, it was 10 strikeouts and one walk.
“You got to keep going,” Carlos Mendoza said. “You can’t sit here and feel sorry for yourself. Yeah, we get frustrated at times, but you got to continue to go.”
The Mets have scored the second-fewest runs in the National League (206, 3.96 per game; only the Giants are worse) and are slashing .228/.293/.352 (.645 OPS) as a team, which ranks the following, respectively: 26th, 29th, 30th, and 30th in the league. For comparison, in 2025, the Mets finished sixth in the National League in runs and scored 4.73 runs per game. The team slashed .249/.326/.427 (.753 OPS) which ranked 14th, sixth, eighth, and sixth, respectively.
Still, it appeared that New York was finding a flow before coming to Miami. The Mets scored 37 runs on a six-game homestand that ended last Sunday and then exploded for a season-high 16 runs on Monday in Washington.
There is a lot of potential offense on the injured list with Francisco Lindor, Jorge Polanco and Francisco Alvarez all out. But those reinforcement are all a ways away from returning.
