{"id":950239,"date":"2019-09-08T20:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=950239"},"modified":"2019-09-08T20:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:37:54","slug":"we-had-a-problem-mets-lose-series-to-phillies-m1d1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/we-had-a-problem-mets-lose-series-to-phillies-m1d1\/","title":{"rendered":"We Had A Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"
There will be plenty of time to pick at the carcass of this team. Plenty of time to dissect what exactly went wrong and to try to come up with our own fixes while knowing that nothing that we suggest will come to fruition because the front office is going to get “creative”.<\/p>\n
But while today’s 10-7 loss<\/a> to the Phillies didn’t eliminate the Mets mathematically, it sure as hell felt like we were all Jimmy Conway in the phone booth<\/a> when Vinne told him that “we had a problem”. The Mets tried to do everything they could this season, but it’s gone and they couldn’t do nuttin’ about it. That’s what Sunday felt like.<\/p>\n Jimmy Conway had hope to start that day too. That was the Mets’ 3-0 lead as Wilson Ramos and Robinson Cano hit back to back home runs. But Noah Syndergaard gave it all back in five innings where the final two were scored on a Corey Dickerson base hit on a pitch that wasn’t all that bad to give the Phillies a 4-3 lead. Of course it happened after Jeff McNeil couldn’t corral a pop-up in foul ground to set up the Dickerson hit. Seems to always happen that way.<\/p>\n Syndergaard had thrown 78 pitches to that point when the Mets tied it on a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the fifth with two outs and Noah due up. Handsome Art Howe decided to pull Syndergaard at that point and go for the jugular, He brought up Todd Frazier to hopefully run into one and give the Mets an 8-4 lead. Instead, Frazier swung at two baseballs with his patented “I’m going to lunge at this baseball as if I’ve never played baseball before” swing and left the bases loaded. Just as it was on Saturday night<\/a>, Todd Frazier stranding the bases loaded felt like that was pretty much it.<\/p>\n