BOSTON — Even two hours after it happened, Brandon Nimmo felt he did everything right.
“I really felt like I did my job there,” he said. “You feel like you won the at-bat and did your job: You hit the ball hard at a good launch angle.”
With two New York Mets in scoring position and two outs in Tuesday’s third inning, Nimmo drove a Brennan Bernardino curveball to deep center — 103.1 mph off the bat, a .770 expected batting average.
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It landed in Kristian Campbell’s glove, just on the edge of the Triangle in Fenway Park’s center field, some 386 feet from home.
“If I go left off the Monster, it’s a double. If it goes to the right, it’s probably a homer,” Nimmo said. “A little bit of bad luck there.”
This was the Mets’ night, again. New York’s slumbering offense continued to doze, unable to cross home plate against an improvised bullpen game from the Red Sox. Despite the early ejection of starting pitcher Walker Buehler, Boston shut out the Mets 2-0. The Sox will go for the sweep Wednesday with ace Garrett Crochet on the mound.
It’s the first time the Mets have lost three consecutive games since the final weekend of last year’s regular season. They were the last team in the majors this season to lose three in a row. New York has lost five of six.
“We’re going through it right now, no doubt about it,” manager Carlos Mendoza said.
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The culprit is clear and consistent in this malaise: a Mets offense that has morphed from struggling with runners in position to struggling, period. In other recent games, you could point to the quality of the opposing pitcher as a reason for New York’s doldrums, be it Paul Skenes, Carlos Rodón or Max Fried.
That excuse wasn’t available Tuesday, not after Buehler was tossed from the game in that third inning for arguing a call. Boston had to push an already thin bullpen to cover the final 6 2/3 innings. Nevertheless, New York managed four hits Tuesday against seven Red Sox hurlers, four of whom the Mets had seen the night before.
The slump is comprehensive. Throw a dart at the Mets’ lineup card and you’ll hit a player struggling. Over the last seven games, Francisco Lindor is 2-for-25, Nimmo and Pete Alonso both 4-for-26. Alonso hasn’t homered in 52 at-bats, nearing the longest streak of his career without going yard.
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Reading out each individual OPS over the last seven games sounds like a timeline of the late Roman empire: .320, .387, .407, .445, .462. That’s Lindor, Francisco Alvarez, Alonso, Nimmo and Mark Vientos.
The team owns a collective .176 average, .280 on-base percentage and .233 slugging percentage in that time — adding up to a .513 OPS.
“I’ve never encountered a year where you don’t go through something like this,” Nimmo said. “It’s not overreacting and not trying to make too many big changes. Trust the process.”
In that vein, Mendoza was unsure if he’ll shake up the lineup for Wednesday’s finale. The Mets have stuck with Lindor, Juan Soto, Alonso and Nimmo as their top four hitters even as all have slumped.
“We’ll see,” Mendoza said. “I’m always looking for ways, whether to move guys around, when is the right time to do it. As far as track record, we’ve got too many good players in this room.”
The lack of offense made a loser out of Clay Holmes, who allowed just a pair of solo homers over the Green Monster in six innings. The Mets haven’t scored in Holmes’ last two starts.
“It’s one of those moments where there’s no looking around. You’ve got to look in the mirror and make sure you’re doing everything you can,” Holmes said. “It’s really just digging deep, seeing what we’re made of and pushing forward. It’s not going to be one guy that does it; it’s going to be everybody staying together and pushing together as a team.”
Nimmo joked that the Mets at least waited longer for adversity this year. Their first three-game losing streak in 2024 was right away.
“Last year, it was the first three games, right?” he said. “So we accomplished something by getting past that point.”
The Mets are confident they’ll get past this one, too.
“We’ve got a lot of veteran guys here that I’m not worried about,” Nimmo said. “I feel like the attitude is right here.”
“These moments, you get tested,” said Holmes, “and I think it’s good to see what you have inside.”
(Photo of Juan Soto after striking out Tuesday: Winslow Townson / Getty Images)
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