In one clubhouse at Citi Field on Tuesday night the beer and bourbon flowed freely. And in the other, a manager was apologizing to his team over a puzzling decision. I will let you guess which of the two was the Mets clubhouse.

The San Francisco Giants defeated the New York Mets 9-3 in 10 innings on Tuesday. The game was like a microcosm of large parts of the Mets season rolled up neatly into a 10-inning package. The Mets get behind early, to their credit fight their way back to take a lead, turn the game over to the bullpen in a high leverage situation, the bullpen blows it, game over.

The focus of Tuesday’s loss will not be the top of the tenth inning where the Giants scored a half-dozen runs to seal the win. No, the focus will be on the seventh inning and a decision by a rookie manager that he wishes he could have back and it will also be on comments made by the manager after the game.

The Mets were facing Giants’ ace Madison Bumgarner, a pitcher that the Mets have never beaten. The Giants took a 2-0 lead in the fourth and the way Bumgarner pitches, especially in Citi Field where he almost never gives up a run, the game seemed well in hand. To the Mets credit, this evening would be different.

In the sixth the Mets, on two swings of the bat, took a 3-2 lead. A solo homer by Pete Alonso (his 20th) and a two-run shot by Wilson Ramos gave the Citi Field faithful some life as the Mets grabbed the advantage.

Then the top of the seventh happened.

Two men were out and there was a runner on first. Mets manager Mickey Callaway strolled to home plate to make a double switch, removing starter Noah Syndergaard from the game after 103 pitches. Seth Lugo came in and proceeded to give up a single and a double and before you could say, ‘not again’, the game was tied 3-3.

Syndergaard was clearly perturbed at being removed from the game. It was the second time in 72 hours that a Mets pitcher was upset at Callaway for an early exit. On Saturday, Jacob deGrom also expressed his dissatisfaction from being lifted from the proceedings.

Anyway, Tuesday’s game went into extras and we all know what happened after that.

The Giants victory was the 1000th win for Bruce Bochy as the manager of the Giants. That milestone has only been reached by one other manager in Giants’ history, John McGraw with 2583 wins. Beer was being sprayed in the Giants clubhouse in appreciation of Bochy’s feat. Later the team sipped bourbon to further the celebration. Bochy, who will retire at the end of the season, is just 49 wins short of 2000 wins.

As for Callaway, he appeared very somber in the post-game press conference. He told the press no less than four times that he wished he could have the decision to remove Syndergaard back and that it was a mistake to take him out in the seventh. He also admitted meeting with the team right after the loss, to show remorse and apologize to his players for his poor decision making. How that will stand in the face of his job security is anybody’s guess.

It is rare when a baseball manager at the professional level is ‘remorseful’ (as Syndergaard put it) and apologetic, at the end of a game. Although we all make mistakes, this is the first time we know of that Callaway brought his team together to admit his errors. How the team will respond to this rare admonition is unknown.

The strength of the Mets is their starting pitching and in the last three days, two of their finest were visibly upset at their manager. If Callaway begins to lose his players, trouble certainly will be brewing, but if he loses his pitchers, then the Mets season is destined to go south in a hurry. The passionate Mets fan base went crazy on social media over Callaway’s behavior, both in-game and post-game and to me deservedly so.

I believe it is time for the Mets upper management to take a closer look at the man that just 15 days ago, they solidly defended. It is clear, he overmanages at times, has problems with in-game strategy, and may be losing parts of the clubhouse and although the players defend Callaway publicly, the facial expressions of Syndergaard and deGrom upon their exits from their games tell another story. Before this season is lost action must be taken.

I remarked earlier that the Callaway’s post-game press conference had a somber, almost funeral-like tone to it. If things don’t turn around soon, upper management will not be bringing beer.

They’d be better off bringing lilies…to signify the end of the Callaway era.