Apr 14, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA; New York Mets third baseman Mark Vientos (27) reacts after striking out in the sixth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
QUEENS, NY — Somehow, the Mets have found a new low even after breaking a 12-game losing streak that was their longest in 24 years.
New York was swept in a doubleheader by the National League West’s worst team, the Colorado Rockies, in which a punchless offense scored just one run on 10 hits in 18 innings.
The Mets have the worst offense in baseball, which has hit rock bottom during this current 17-game stretch, going 2-15. They have already been shut out five times this season, and they’ve scored fewer than two runs in a game 10 times. In their three-game set against the Rockies, who were 11-16 entering Sunday, the offense mustered just four runs in total.
“It’s hard to explain when you have that many guys that are going through it at the same time,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “It’s just not a good showing. Not good at-bats up and down. Get a guy here and there, but overall, not hitting the ball hard consistently. It’s hard. It’s hard to explain because you get three or four guys that go through, but you got four or five guys that can carry. But right now, it’s hard to describe.”
The lack of production from the offense has only increased the speculation about Mendoza’s job, which is understandably hitting a fever pitch after Sunday’s miserable showing, and with Monday being an off day. The Mets are now 9-19 on the season, which is their worst start to a year since 1983.
“The only thing I’m worried about here is I gotta get the guys going,” Mendoza said. “I get it. It sucks. I know the question will continue to come up, but my job is to find a way to get those guys out of a funk.”
But Mendoza can only work with what he has, and the roster put together by president of baseball operations David Stearns has been suspect, to say the least. The new acquisitions of Bo Bichette, Marcus Semien, Jorge Polanco, and Luis Robert Jr. have not come close to paying off.
Bichette and Semien both have an OPS under .600, Robert is batting .139 in his last 10 games, and Polanco is on the IL with wrist and Achilles issues.
Francisco Lindor is out for what is expected to be multiple months after straining his calf just as he was coming out of an early-season slump. Meanwhile, Brett Baty and Mark Vientos continue to struggle consistently, producing at the major-league level.
It has left the opposition’s game plan remarkably simple, especially over the last five games: Pitch around Juan Soto and take your chances elsewhere.
There is no reason to deviate from it until the Mets figure this out, and there is no suggestion that they will unless a major shakeup of some kind happens. The most obvious way of doing that is parting ways with Mendoza, though solely putting the blame on him is unfair.
“As players, we have to perform,” Soto said. “This is not Mendy’s fault or David’s fault. They put a great team together, and we have to be the ones who got to go out there and perform. I don’t think [Mendoza] has been doing anything wrong. I think he’s been doing a great job as a manager, because he’s moving the pieces and putting the pieces in the right spot. We haven’t come through. It’s not his fault at all.”
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