Suffering Power Outage, Mets Plan to Block Out Noise

There have been 212 home runs hit in the last seven days across Major League Baseball. None by the Mets.

The last Met to go deep was Brett Baty, who homered in a 2-1 victory over the Pirates on May 13. Francisco Lindor hasn’t homered since May 11. Juan Soto‘s last blast was on May 9 and Pete Alonso hasn’t homered in 13 straight games, the third-longest homerless stretch of his career.

“They’re humans,” manager Carlos Mendoza said of the top three in New York’s lineup after the trio went 2-for-10 in a 2-0 loss to the Red Sox on Tuesday. “Our offense, those guys go, we’re gonna go. They’re gonna go through it at times. And right now, they’re fighting.”

New York, which has lost five of six, seems to go as the home runs go, too. The Mets are 22-6 when they hit a long ball and 7-14 when they don’t.

Home runs haven’t been the only thing missing from the offense in the last week. In the last seven days, the team is hitting .172/.282/.225/.507, which ranks them 30/22/30/29 out of 30 MLB teams.

Brandon Nimmo was asked Tuesday about Soto, who came under fire from some in the media after going 1-for-10 with four walks in the Subway Series last weekend.

“Honestly, he’s human,” Nimmo said. “I think for where we’re at, he’s still doing great. He still has above an .800 OPS. That’s who he is. He walks and he destroys pitches when they leave them in the middle of the zone.

“I know that this is a long season and he’s going to do great. I have all the confidence in the world with him and the work ethic that he has and the way he goes about it and honestly just the God-given talent that he has. It’s going to come through.”

Reporters asked Mendoza how the team is handling the critics.

“It starts with me as the manager,” he said. “My job is to block that noise. You know there is a lot of noise right now. It’s nothing new for us. It’s nothing new for the guys. A lot of guys there that were here last year, a lot of guys that got a lot of experience here in New York. They know what it means, especially when you going through situations like this. It’s all part of it. We’ll be together. We’ll stay together. We’ll have each other’s back here and we’ll block all that noise.

“I believe in those guys. They’re in a good place. And if there’s a team that knows how to handle adversity, it’s this team.”

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