There are 14 games remaining before MLB’s Aug. 1 trade deadline, but Friday’s loss seemed to end the charade that the Mets might be buyers.
If this game represented a nine-inning referendum on what direction the Mets’ hierarchy should take at the deadline, it turned into a Requiem for the Season.
“Inexcusable,” said Verlander, who walked as many as six in a game for only the third time in a career consisting of 495 starts. “You can’t walk six guys and win a ballgame or give your guys a chance.The Mets have not played consistent good baseball in many facets for most of this season, which went wrong even before play began.
Because that is all they wrote, other than the three more runs tacked on by the Dodgers and three more free passes issued by Mets relief pitchers. This was a 2:48 exercise in tedium. This was Peoples’ Exhibit A in why owner Steve Cohen and general manager Billy Eppler need to divest and begin laying a platform for 2024 rather than hoping for bolts of lightning to strike the way they did during the six-game winning streak.
But these are the exceptions. And one comes away with the idea that Cohen did not make his fortune hoping for miracles.
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