NY Mets have somehow reached rock bottom twice in less than a month

Rock bottom for the 2026 New York Mets was supposed to be the image of Bo Bichette sitting in the dugout after the team was swept at Citi Field by the Colorado Rockies. Losing both halves of a doubleheader against one of the league’s projected and legitimately worst teams, it was April 26 when we figured the worst of what we’d see had taken place.

At 9-19, the Mets were tied for last in the NL East with the Philadelphia Phillies. Philadelphia took a different direction than the Mets since. Battling back to the .500 mark after firing Rob Thomson, the Mets have stuck with Carlos Mendoza as the skipper (for now).

The cellar may have been reached again on May 24. Three losses to the Miami Marlins on the road to finish their underwhelming 2-5 road trip, the Mets are now 22-31. They’ve gained only one game closer to even at 9 games below .500 rather than 10. This time, there was no image of Bichette or anyone else sitting in the dugout alone. Instead, we got a lot of the same responses from the players and manager who are as puzzled as anyone.

The Mets don’t have any answers and they’re not going to admit they’re just a bad team

Marcus Semien spoke after Sunday’s loss with what has become a token response:

Mark Vientos basically said the same thing the day prior:

Good pitching is no excuse for losing. Christian Scott was incredible for the Mets on Sunday. Freddy Peralta was serviceable on Saturday. On Friday, the Mets got a completely acceptable performance out of their bulk guys who trotted out there one after another.

From April 26 to May 24, the Mets haven’t been able to figure out a thing. Bichette finished that Rockies series batting .239 on the year. He’s now at .218. Semien has been frustratingly consistent. He had a .220 batting average. He has, somehow, dipped down to .214 on the season.

Two runs all weekend against the Marlins with the first coming on a Juan Soto solo shot and the second with 2 outs in the ninth on Saturday, there is no excuse. Nobody stepped up. They didn’t accidentally score a run or try something different.

Sunday’s lineup sans Soto explained it all. They are not a team capable of winning on an average day. An ice cold MJ Melendez, followed by Tyrone Taylor and Hayden Senger is only acceptable when your 1-6 has multiple All-Stars. Soto’s absence due to illness made this an impossible to win situation because of how the rest of the team has hit. The Mets cannot depend on Carson Benge and A.J. Ewing to carry the load when players like Brett Baty and Mark Vientos are raising the same familiar concerns.

It feels like the Mets have now reached rock bottom twice in less than a month. In reality, they probably never left.

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