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The first two games of the Mets’ series in Milwaukee have gone about as poorly as possible. While it’s important not to overreact to the fifth and sixth games of the season, being outscored 19-0 in two games American Family Field is almost unthinkable for a team with championship aspirations.

While the pitching has had its own challenges, the Mets’ offense has been completely non-existent in this series. In fact, the Mets have scored only one run, a ninth-inning Pete Alonso home run off of A.J. Puk, in their three losses this season.

As a team, the Mets have an OPS of just .608 through six games, 27th in MLB. They have hit only three home runs (one each by Alonso, Mark Canha, and Tommy Pham), which is as much as the Brewers hit in consecutive at-bats off of Max Scherzer in Tuesday’s drubbing.

Individually, while regulars like Brandon Nimmo, Jeff McNeil, and Omar Narváez have gotten off to decent starts, the rest of the lineup has been ice cold. Combined, Alonso, Canha, Francisco Lindor, Eduardo Escobar, and Daniel Vogelbach are just 13-90 at the plate thus far.

Things will only get more challenging today, as the Mets will face Corbin Burnes this afternoon trying to not only avoid a sweep, but avoid being completely blanked in the series.

As bad as the offense has been, it’s unlikely the team will make any drastic moves after only six games. Still, if the struggles continue through the Mets’ first home series of the season against the Marlins, you have to wonder when Billy Eppler will begin to feel the heat.  The Mets have three highly-regarded hitting prospects with MLB experience waiting in Triple-A in Francisco Álvarez, Mark Vientos, and Brett Baty (although Baty may not be healthy enough at the moment for a call-up), and it’s tough to imagine their production being any worse than what we have seen thus far from the Mets’ veterans.

All it takes is one or two solid offensive outputs to get the momentum going in the right direction, and the lineup is talented enough to break out of its collective slump. However, many were concerned that the Mets didn’t do enough in the offseason to bolster the lineup, and the results on the field thus far have seemed to back that up.