The buzzing Citi Field – including Darryl Strawberry parked behind the home plate – arrived in the hope of witnessing history.
Towards the end, they would have settled for a wrist of the Mets attack.
In four record performances, Pete Alonso could not find the battle to match Strawberry on 252 home runs as one with.
And nowadays, when Alonso does not drive the attack, the attack is too often lacking.
The Mets did not take a point after the second inning and did not take a hit after the fourth in what was a 3-2 loss for the Guardians for 39,895 in Queens on Tuesday.
The Mets (63-51) dropped another series before the matinee arrived on Wednesday and lost seven of their last eight games. Alonso-Die 1-Out-3 had another chance to win history tomorrow.
For the second half of 2025 these are the games they should win. They received competence, if not length from their starter (Clay Holmes).
Their Super Bullpen did not allow much (only a cheap run scored from Tyler Rogers). They kept Cleveland to six hits and three runs.
But an expensive and powerful attack, which ended with only four hits and silence after the second inning, does not match the blueprint ideal.
Even their runs came with a dose of frustration.
They scored once in the first inning, when Francisco Lindor ran, second on a beam and third on a wild pitch before Alonso’s sacrificial fly scored. But with Juan Soto on second base, a suddenly frigid Brandon Nimmo hit one night when the Mets 1-out-5 went with runners in a scoring position.
They scored again in the second, when Tyrone Taylor came through with a single that knocked in Mark Vientos. But the Mets then loaded the bases with one for Lindor, who smoked a ground ball in the middle that went for a doubles.
And that would close their attacking performance.
The winning point may just as well have been scored by accident.
Rogers – who specializes in weak contact that was on the way to the south – got into trouble because it found weak contact holes.
With two out in the seventh, CJ Kayfus hit a helicopter through the left for a single. Brayan Rocchio followed by sticking out his bat and raising a single from the opposite field to the left.
With two, Steven Kwan hit a blooder in the middle who bounced three times before he split Lindor and Jeff McNeil for the Go-Ahead Run.
Holmes was dominant, then dented and then done.
For three innings he was perfect, by blowing the Line -up of Cleveland without allowing a base runner. That streak ended in a three-hit fourth inning with one walk. After a scoreless fifth he was gone after just 75 throws, so that Gregory Soto came across the top of the Guardians.
Holmes allowed those two runs in five innings, generally effective but again unable to go deep. No Mets Start Pitcher than David Peterson took six full innings since Holmes on 7 June – almost two full months ago.
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