Carlos Mendoza managed his 89th game in the big leagues Monday afternoon at Pittsburgh’s PNC Park. It did not go well for the Mets.
to be hard. There are dozens of elements to every work day, sometime hundreds. A few years ago, Buck Showalter admitted that even after managing more than 3,000 games he’d often find himself dealing with stuff he’d never had to deal with before.
He got none of them. Reynolds walked on a 3-2 change that sure looked like it clipped the bottom of the zone — “Borderline pitch,” Orze said, “I would’ve liked to have gotten that” — and after Cruz slashed a single to left, Tellez — think Daniel Vogelbach, minus about three ham sandwiches — somehow beat Mark Vientos’ throw to first on a ball cued off the end of his bat to give the Bucs the lead.
Toughest for Mendoza, who on Sunday got away with making an ill-fated decision to bring Edwin Diaz into the eighth inning and saw Diaz promptly give up the lead; he was rescued by a two-out, two-run rally and by the fact that Aroldis Chapman was determined to have one of the most Aroldis Chapman innings ever.
Somehow, the Mets are 8-6 in that stretch, thanks mostly to playing lousy teams , a stretch they’d hoped might launch them into playoff position. That hasn’t happened yet, though there’s plenty of softies ahead. As long as the pen is a tire fire, consistent playoff-level play remains a pipe dream.
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