Mets Swept by Phillies, Season Collapsing Around Them

 PHILLIES 3 - METS 0 

The Mets were once in first place, 4.5 games ahead of the Phillies. Now they are in third place, 2.5 games out. 

The season is spiraling out of control, and there seems to be no end in sight. The Mets were lifeless and listless on Sunday against the Phillies, and Zach Wheeler, who carried a one-hitter into the ninth inning. 

A team that has struggled to score runs all season managed only five runs in the three games over the weekend, and there is reason to believe -- as the schedule gets tougher that this season is all but over. 

Wheeler never broke a sweat against his former team. The Mets were 0-for-3 with RISP, as he fanned 11 and walked only one. 

Javier Baez, the July 31 trade deadline piece the Mets added was 0-for-2. His average dipped below .181 since joining the Mets. 

Pete Alonso who struck out swinging last night with the tying runs aboard, was 0-for-4 on Sunday with two strikeouts. It was pathetic to watch. 

Even Taijuan Walker continues to look like a shell of his former self. He served up three solo home runs on Sunday to Jean Segura, JT Realmuto and Bryce Harper. Somehow this was dignified as a decent outing. I don't know how. It was just awful, and not nearly enough. 

Worst of all is the tone deaf nature of this team off the field. According to the New York Post's Mike Puma, he quoted Alonso as saying "I think we are in a really good spot, because we're hitting the ball hard, they just aren't falling right now." 

Really Pete? A good spot? Being in third place is a good spot? This team has failed to hit with runners in scoring position all year, and you consider this a good spot? Are you out of your mind. 

Then there is the tone deaf owner, Steve Cohen, who chimed in on Twitter, as he always does, with "I just visited the players in the clubhouse. They are ready and in a good frame of mind for this game." Well Nostradomus, they looked really ready as they were two-hit by a pitcher the Mets deemed unworthy of their uniform. 

They Mets should be ashamed of themselves. They are every bit a three-ring circus that they have been for years upon years, and decades upon decades. Mets fans are used to having the wool pulled up over their eyes from this franchise, but that is typically reserved for September. 

Not August. This year, the Mets decided to make an exception. They stink. And with the Dodgers and Giants coming up, they will be totally buried.