The New York Mets starting pitchers have been having a rough go of it. Almost a historically rough go of it, actually, as the team has now gone 51 straight games without two different starting pitchers going six innings in a game. That's the longest team streak since 1901, according to SNY.
On Friday, that streak continued — but as a whole, the pitching staff did its job, giving up just three runs to the MLB-best Milwaukee Brewers. That should usually put a team in position to win. It did, I suppose, put them in position to win, but the Brewers won on a magnificent Blake Perkins putout from centerfield to end the game.
— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) August 9, 2025
And so while starting pitching not being able to go deep in games has been a massive problem, that's not what killed the Mets tonight. Instead, they were undone by a potentially even bigger problem, and one that's seemingly getting worse: they can't score! The Mets are 26th in baseball in runs scored since the break and the offense has been stuck in mud pretty much that entire time.
The Mets' biggest problem right now isn't clear and that's a pretty big problem
Maybe the biggest problem is that I'm not 100 percent sure what the team's biggest problem is. Starting pitching never being able to go deep into games is obviously a huge concern, but it also doesn't matter how deep your starting pitching goes, or how good your bullpen is, if the offense can't be relied upon on a nightly basis.
When multiple parts of a team are failing to function like the Mets' team offense and starting pitching are right now... things get ugly, quickly. And they have done exactly that for the Mets, who are quickly falling out of the NL East race as the Phillies keep winning, and quickly falling down the Wild Card ladder, with no buffer between them and the Reds (who luckily are cold in their own right).
Mets losing streak has fans exasperated
You may not remember this, but the Mets had a seven game win streak at one point, like a week and a half ago. They swept the Angels then the Giants, and things were looking pretty good!
They promptly got swept by the Padres and now they've lost nine of their last ten games. The inconsistency is wearing on Mets fans, who also watched the team lose 10 of 11 games directly after a six game winning streak in the first half. There doesn't seem to be a happy medium for these Mets; and the winning streaks are coming less than the frustrating losses at this point, as the team is somehow only 10 games over .500.