00:00Braves beat the Mets 7-4. The Mets just simply cannot get out of their own way right now.
00:05They've lost 10 of their last 11. They're now 0-5 against the Braves.
00:09They had a 3-0 lead in this game, but then a 5-run 6th inning capped off by Matt Olsen on FanDuel Sportsnet.
00:17Olsen, line drive, base hit out into right center.
00:22Two will score. Atlanta has played it 5-6 to grab the lead.
00:28I mean, it is really unbelievable to me that a team as loaded as the Mets have lost 10 of 11. It really is.
00:38Yeah, it's actually kind of hard to fathom that they both, both New York teams have just gone completely really in the tank in the last three weeks.
00:50I mean, awful.
00:51Well, the Yankees haven't been as bad as the Mets, but they ain't too far behind with the way that they've been playing the last couple of weeks.
00:59They did get a good start out of Frankie Montas, his first start of the year.
01:04Five innings, three hits, no runs.
01:05Did that surprise you after he gave up 50 runs in the minors?
01:10Yes. That was very surprising.
01:13He left with a 3-0 lead, but then, of course, they couldn't finish the job.
01:17Let's hear from Francisco Lindor on the Mets' lack of success so far against the Braves.
01:23Why have the Braves been so difficult for you this season?
01:26I don't know.
01:30If I were to pinpoint something, they have outplayed us.
01:33They have played better defense, ran the bases better, they hit better.
01:42Overall, they have done everything better than us.
01:44So, yeah, you got to tip your cap, but come back tomorrow and try to win.
01:49Yeah, I mean, I honestly, so, you know, again, they're playing them tonight,
01:57and I just don't have any faith in the Mets.
02:01I don't care who's pitching.
02:03Like, aren't they going up against some guy like Fuentes or something?
02:08Yeah.
02:08Who are they?
02:09Like, who's pitching?
02:11Like, I could have sworn, right?
02:12Like, did I not?
02:13Clay Holmes for the Mets tonight.
02:14But Fuentes for Atlanta, I don't care who's pitching.
02:19They're not scoring.
02:21They have 10 of 11.
02:23My God, how many do they have to lose before you, you know,
02:26I'm betting against them every night.
02:29Got to go after them at this point.
02:31And part of the reason why they've had a slide,
02:33Pete Alonso the last 10 games, 2-0-5, one homer, one RBI.
02:38Now, to be fair, to be fair, he carried them the first two months of the season.
02:44He was incredible in April and May.
02:47Like, you know, the guy has a bad couple of weeks and the whole team craters?
02:52A little unfair.
02:52Where's everybody else is what I would say.
02:55You can't blame him.
02:56You can't blame him because you're right.
02:58He carried him.
02:59So, now he's hit a wall.
03:01You know, it's what happens in baseball.
03:05You know, Judge is going through it a little bit right now, isn't he?
03:08I mean, he hit an upper deck the other night, but his numbers, remember, look at where he was.
03:12He was at 400.
03:13And look where he is now.
03:15And, you know, he hasn't done, you know, he hit that home run, but he really hasn't been hitting of late, to be honest.
03:24And, you know, guys go through that.
03:27Like, what was he in the Boston series?
03:30He had what?
03:31One hit?
03:32The whole series?
03:33One hit?
03:33And he had like eight or nine strikeouts?
03:37Yeah.
03:37You know, he had just a miserable week.
03:39He's down to 364 after being hanging around 400 for a little while there.
03:44So, that's how bad of a stretch he's gotten into.
03:48Ronald Acuna Jr., eighth player to reach 200 career steals.
03:52Eighth active player to reach 200 career steals.
03:55So, nice job by Acuna.
03:56I think he's the reason they're winning.
03:58I think he's the reason that they're hot.
04:00I think he's the reason that they're kicking the Mets ass.
04:03His numbers are staggering over the last three, four weeks.
04:08He's the reason, what, are they four under 500 now?
04:11They're right there.
04:13And I'm telling you, of all teams, to keep an eye on, the rest of the way, this is one of those.
04:19Do you remember when the Nats, when they won the World Series, like right at the All-Star break, they started winning.
04:25And then they never, like, they never lost in the second half.
04:29And they won the title.
04:30The Braves have started winning, you know, I'd say over the last two and a half weeks, they've started winning.
04:39And here they are.
04:40They're on the precipice of, I believe, going over 500 and getting back into it.
04:46Like, I think they have to play for a wild card, Mike.
04:49I don't see them doing, you know, the East route.
04:53I think they're going to have to be a wild card.
04:55But all you have to do is get in.
04:57It doesn't matter if you're a wild card or you win the division.
