Mets drop fourth straight sport with embarrassing loss to Orioles

BALTIMORE — It’s going to be an extended last two months of the 2023 season for the Mets.

They prolonged their dropping streak to 4 video games on Friday evening with a 10-3 loss to the Orioles. The streak started on Tuesday, the day of the commerce deadline, which signified the tip of the season.

For good measure Friday, two of the most important hits for the Orioles got here from former Mets free-agent bust James McCann, who had a two-run single in opposition to John Curtiss within the fourth inning and a two-run double within the sixth in opposition to Phil Bickford.

McCann completed the evening with 5 RBIs after he entered the sport with simply 10 this season.

The Mets’ makeshift bullpen — and pitching employees as an entire — will definitely be uncovered the remainder of the best way and Friday was a take a look at what’s prone to come.

Supervisor Buck Showalter stated he believes the staff is feeling the consequences of getting traded lots of their stars away — and taking part in poorly consequently.

“Guys are human beings, however now we have been outplayed, I do know that,” Showalter stated of the staff’s response to the fireplace sale. “We’ve got to play higher and a few folks getting a possibility need to make the most of it. … We’re simply not pitching very effectively and never scoring many runs. It’s a nasty mixture.”

Coming off a collection sweep on the lowly Royals, the Mets visited a resurgent Orioles staff that’s in first place within the robust AL East.

With Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander gone, David Peterson made his first begin since June 27 following a demotion to the bullpen. On a pitch rely, Peterson pitched round three walks with out giving up a run, however he lasted simply three innings on 52 pitches.

Peterson may have lots extra begins down the stretch and he’s already eyeing the longer term.

“It’s a possibility for the staff and for myself,’’ the lefty stated. “We’ve obtained loads of video games left. We’ve got to play as arduous as we are able to and provides every little thing we’ve obtained and see the place we’re at.”

The outcomes, to date, haven’t been encouraging.

“Issues have clearly modified with the mindset of the group from the place we began the yr, however that doesn’t imply we don’t play the remainder of the video games,’’ Peterson stated. “We’ve obtained to complete robust and present the entrance workplace what now we have going into the offseason.”

Judging by Friday evening, they’ll want some new relievers, because the six who adopted Peterson have been principally horrible. And a lineup that was shutout on Wednesday and scored only a pair of runs on Thursday at Kansas Metropolis, was quiet once more Friday.

Francisco Lindor doubled with two outs within the first, however was caught making an attempt to steal third to finish the inning.

The Mets loaded the bases with one out within the sixth, as Dean Kremer walked three in a row earlier than Lindor dunked a two-run single to proper to tie the rating at 2-2. Kremer exited for Mike Baumann, who obtained Pete Alonso to hit into an inning-ending double play.

A Ryan O’Hearn single scored Jordan Westburg for the go-ahead run within the sixth inning earlier than McCann blasted a shot off the excessive wall in left that will have been a homer in each ballpark apart from Camden Yards.

That was a part of a four-run sixth inning that Baltimore matched with a four-run seventh, as Bickford and Reed Garrett mixed to surrender eight runs in a single inning of labor spanning these two frames.

The Mets didn’t get better they usually fell to 50-59. They’ll match a season-high by falling 10 video games underneath .500 with one other loss on Saturday.

If that doesn’t occur Saturday, it appears sure to happen in some unspecified time in the future this yr, as the present roster wants almost every little thing to go proper simply to win a sport.