The Mets’ announcers didn’t hold back on the team’s spiraling season.
The Mets carried a 2-1 lead into the ninth inning against the Giants on Saturday before Edwin Diaz blew the save, his third straight blown save opportunity.
The Giants then went on to win 7-2 in 10 innings.
“Boy oh boy,” Keith Hernandez said in the 10th inning on the PIX11 broadcast, as the Giants extended their lead from 4-2 to 7-2 on a Mike Yastrzemski triple. “It feels like the sky is falling.”
Saturday’s loss was the Mets’ fifth in a row and seventh in eight games, and they fell to 21-30 — a season-worth nine games under .500.
“It has felt like that virtually every day for the last month,” Gary Cohen replied to Hernandez.
Then Ron Darling chimed in.
“Good grief,” he said.
It didn’t stop there.
“It seems the recitation is the same every game,” Cohen said. “Players say we’re better than this, we have to play better, we just have to keep a positive attitude. …. But how hard is it to keep a positive attitude when the roof is caving in every day?”
“It’s a battle,” Darling answered. “There’s losing, and then there’s what’s happening here. And it’s two different things. This is just gut-wrenching.”
Cohen did attempt to provide a bit of hope.
“Remember, the sun will come up tomorrow,” he said. “As difficult as that may be to realize.”
The players themselves didn’t shy away from their downfall, either.
“The bottom line is, we’re not executing at the right times and we’re not winning games,” Francisco Lindor said. “We’ve got to hurry up and start winning games.”
“We have to stay optimistic and stick with each other. We understand we’re gonna get through this. It’s just a matter of when. We’ve got to hurry up and start winning ballgames; work, grind, stay the course [and] try to get out of this.”
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