The sky is falling in New York as the Mets have now lost 11 consecutive baseball games. A rare sterling start performance from an embattled pitching staff was wasted on Sunday as once again the offense failed to get anything going in a 2-1 extra innings loss to the Cubs.
The Mets failed to push across a run in the top half of the 10th inning which meant they would have to escape a jam in the bottom half in order to keep the contest going. Craig Kimbrel uncorked a wild pitch to move Pete Crow-Armstrong to third base with no one out before getting Dansby Swanson to strike out. Next up was Nico Hoerner with the option to put him on and play for a double play in addition to cutting down the potential game-winning run at the plate.
