Mets' offense silenced in frustrating loss to Padres

Padres 2, METS 1

So you had to know that eventually the Mets were going to lose a baseball game.

Yet, that still doesn't take the sting away from a frustrating 2-1 defeat at the hands of the San Diego Padres, as the Mets offense went into hibernation, Thursday afternoon, struggling to take advantage of multiple opportunities to plate runs which cost them the ball game.

The Mets were 0-for-5 with RISP, and left nine men on base over the course of the afternoon. The biggest opportunity for New York to do something against San Diego start Eric Stults came in the second and third innings. In the second, New York had two runners on base via a John Buck single and Ruben Tejada walk, but a force out - on a ground ball by Dillon Gee ruined the chance for the Mets. Then in the third, after Justin Turner doubled and David Wright walked, Ike Davis grounded into an inning killing double play.

The Mets would never get another chance with runners on base against Stults. Even though he threw 95 pitches in five innings, Stults only surrendered three hits, walked two, while striking out seven Mets.

As for Dillon Gee it was a tough loss for a guy in his first regular season appearance since being diagnosed with a blood clot last season. Gee got in and out of trouble in the early innings, but couldn't avoid trouble in the fourth, when he gave up an RBI double to Jedd Gyorko to give San Diego a 1-0.

The Padres held that 1-0 lead pretty much throughout thanks in part to the Mets own ineptitude with the bats. San Diego would plate another run on a wild pitch by Jeurys Familia in the eighth.

The Mets finally got on the scoreboard in the ninth on a solo home run by John Buck, his second of the season, but, unfortunately nobody was on base.

The Mets open a series with the Marlins Friday night.