The last 48 hours have been absolutely brutal for the Mets and the fanbase.

Both parties have been reeling after watching the team lose a 4-2 lead on Thursday after Edwin Diaz allowed two runs in the top of the ninth inning as it poured down on Citi Field, right before the game was suspended until Friday.

When play resumed, Diaz came back in for the 10th inning and allowed Yairo Munoz to reach base before Mets-killer Paul DeJong struck again by driving him in with a one-out RBI single.

Flash forward to the second game of the night, and the team watched Jeurys Familia implode in unfathomable fashion, as he allowed DeJong to tie the game at 5-5 and then five batters later, gave up a three-run homer to Dexter Fowler to give them an 8-5 lead.

Mickey Callaway talked about Familia’s performance and his reasoning for leaving the right-hander in the game, as can be heard in the audio clips below.

Kolten Wong extended that lead by a run in the ninth inning as he homered off Hector Santiago which secured a Cardinals’ 9-5 victory.

Santiago, though, was DFA’d after the game, in favor of the newly-converted reliever, Chris Flexen.

After Friday night’s losses, though, the Mets now have blown a league-leading 16 saves on the season while also having allowed the fourth-highest OPS and the sixth-highest ERA in the majors thus far.

Those statistics are absolutely terrible, especially for a team that thought they might have made their bullpen a strength this offseason when they signed Justin Wilson to a two-year, $10 million deal and Familia to a three-year, $30 million contract while also trading away two of their top-five prospects to get Diaz and Robinson Cano.

While Diaz did, in fact, blow the first game of the day, he has largely not been the problem, despite imploding in a few outings.

The bigger issue has been that, outside of Seth Lugo, there is no reliable arm in this bullpen to get them to the ninth inning with a lead intact.

Familia’s 6.91 ERA speaks for itself, but nonetheless, Callaway still gave Familia a vote of confidence in the post-game press conference.

Wilson has been on the 10-day IL with left elbow soreness since May 11. The latter also had an IL trip for the same injury from April 22-May 6.

The good news, in some sense for Wilson, is he might simply have been simply rushed back as he actually only had a 3.24 ERA before he returned on May 6. He gave up two runs in an inning of work that night to raise his season ERA to 4.82 in his only outing before going back on the IL on May 11.

Wilson should be returning to the club soon, which the club desperately needs, as he is going to pitch an inning for the Brooklyn Cyclones on Saturday night, as manager Edgardo Alfonzo confirmed.

Nothing gets better for the Mets bullpen from there as Robert Gsellman has disappointed this season with a 4.78 ERA and the team has looked to the likes of Drew Gagnon to try and pitch meaningful innings this season.

The Mets are at a critical point in their season, and this bullpen might be the thing that makes the team completely collapse if not addressed properly.