Since April 24, the Mets have gone 5-8 which has taken their record from 13-3 to 18-11 for the season.
They remain 3 1/2 games ahead of the Washington Nationals heading into play on Saturday night, when they look to even their series against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.
Here’s a look at their offense over their last 13 games:
- They’ve scored 37 runs in their last 13 games, an average of 2.85 per game.
- They have just 32 extra-base hits, nine of which are home runs, during this stretch.
- They’re hitting .215/.264/.336 over their last 13 games.
- They’ve struck out 103 times, an average of nearly eight per game, and drawn only 24 walks, or an average of 1.84 per game.
- They have stolen only five bases, and grounded into five double plays.
- They’ve hit .247 with runners in scoring position while leaving 77 runners on base.
Boring offense.
The Mets offense almost looks like they’re going through the motions during this stretch. Yes, they’re struggling, but every team goes through phases like this, yet the Mets aren’t being particularly creative in trying to score runs. For instance, maybe the Mets could go against the grain, execute some hit and runs, steal some more bases, and try and make things happen on the bases when they do get opportunities?
They’re not getting on-base.
The club on-base percentage is flat out poor during this stretch. There have been very few quality at-bats during this cold stretch for the offense. They’re swinging at a lot of pitches outside the strike zone as a group, and other than Daniel Murphy, they’re swinging and missing at way too many of those pitches overall. That’s resulting in too many counts they’re behind in, shortened counts and shortened at-bats.
They’re a singles team again.
Only a third of their 91 hits over the past 13 games are for extra bases, nine of which are home runs. They’re basically a singles hitting team, like they have been far too often over the past few seasons. Considering they don’t have much mobility on the bases, they’re very station-to-station and going first-to-third nearly enough. As a result, it often takes three hits to score a run, which is playing a large role in the 77 runners left on-base during this stretch.
Just Mets 