Mets humiliated by Braves in hard-to-watch doubleheader disaster

Supervisor Buck Showalter admitted that the Mets didn’t pitch nicely and let a recreation “get away from us” on Saturday afternoon, two statements that basically didn’t should be mentioned after his crew suffered probably the most lopsided residence loss in crew historical past.

The Mets obtained a much better pitching efficiency from Jose Quintana within the nightcap of a day-night doubleheader in opposition to the Braves following an embarrassing 21-3 blowout loss in the matinee portion.

However their bats remained silent, they usually have been swept within the twin invoice with a 6-0 loss in Recreation 2 at Citi Subject.

MLB strikeout chief Spencer Strider outdueled Quintana, who allowed one run over six innings in his greatest of 5 regular begins for the Mets since he got here off the injured record on July 20.

Errors by second baseman Danny Mendick and middle fielder Tim Locastro on the identical play led to an Atlanta run within the eighth inning of Recreation 2.

Strider struck out six over seven scoreless innings to increase the dominance of the Braves’ beginning pitchers on this collection, which started with a 7-0 shutout on Friday night time and included seven scoreless frames by former Mets farmhand Allan Winans within the first recreation Saturday.

In Recreation 1, the Mets (52-65) fielded a makeshift lineup that hardly would have met necessities for a street recreation in spring coaching, a lot much less an August conflict in opposition to the crew with the most effective file in baseball.

Winans, the Mets’ 2018 Seventeenth-round draft choose, was left unprotected and was then chosen by the Braves within the 2021 Rule 5 draft.

He throttled an already trade-depleted lineup that was with out injured starters Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo, although each returned to motion for Recreation 2.

In his second large league begin, Winans allowed no runs on 4 hits over seven innings, however the Mets averted a second consecutive shutout on Daniel Vogelbach’s three-run homer within the eighth inning.

“Simply not doing a lot offensively … it’s been an actual problem for us,” mentioned Showalter, whose plummeting membership has misplaced 10 of 12 since dealing away key gamers on the Aug. 1 commerce deadline. “We get some folks on the market [on the bases], we simply can’t make it work for us.”

The MLB-leading Braves (75-41) scored 5 runs on eight hits in opposition to fill-in Recreation 1 starter Denyi Reyes throughout his 4 ²/₃ innings of labor.

Relievers Reed Garrett and Josh Walker, together with Mendick, have been rocked for 16 extra runs — eight within the ninth innings versus Mendick — and 6 residence runs over the ultimate 4 innings, together with two by MLB chief Matt Olson.

Reyes’ lone earlier begin for the Mets, on Could 1 in opposition to the Braves, didn’t go nicely, both. The righty was knocked out of that recreation earlier than he recorded an out within the second inning, and he allowed 5 earned runs and two residence runs in a 9-8 Mets loss.

On Saturday, the Mets didn’t register a success in opposition to Winans till Vogelbach’s single to left with one out within the fourth. By then, they trailed 5-0 after a two-run single within the high half pf the fourth by Ozzie Albies.

Olson clubbed his MLB-leading forty first and forty second homers of the season within the sixth and eighth innings, respectively. Albies additionally homered within the seventh to push the Mets’ deficit into double digits.

Sean Murphy homered within the eighth, prompting Showalter to herald Mendick, who yielded two extra residence runs, to Riley and Lopez, within the ninth.

“That’s what you run into. Mendick’s finished that job earlier than, however you possibly can’t ask folks to make outs,” Showalter mentioned. “It counts, so I perceive.

“That is what guys do for a residing; they hit for a residing. And we inflicted that on ourselves … it’s not their fault that we didn’t play very nicely, or pitch very nicely.”

Quintana’s work actually marked an enchancment in Recreation 2. The lefty allowed just one run, on an RBI single to former Met Kevin Pillar, within the fifth of his six innings.

Mendick booted a smash by Riley within the eighth inning, and Locastro overran the ball in middle discipline, enabling Albies to attain for a two-run lead. Ozuna ripped an RBI double in opposition to Drew Smith later within the inning for a 4-0 Braves benefit earlier than Albies added a two-run homer within the ninth.