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Skids Continue for Both Yankees and Mets

 The bad times keep rolling for the New York Mets and New York Yankees as both New York teams suffered losses on Tuesday. 

For the Mets they got slapped around by the Atlanta Braves 7-4 on Tuesday, as New York blew a 3-0 lead behind Frankie Montas, who was making his Mets debut after opening the season on the Injury List.

Francisco Lindor looks on in frustration. Getty Images. 

What was so surprising of the early success for the Mets on Tuesday was the fact that Montas, who had a 12 ERA in six rehab games in the minors, was actually solid. He gave the Mets what they needed: five innings of shutout baseball. 

But when the bullpen came in, it was a totally different story. Huascar Brazoban, and Reed Garrett were awful. And newcomers Jose Castillo and Richard (don't call him Dickey) Lovelady were not much better. 

Atlanta scored five runs in the sixth inning, and tacked on a couple more in the eighth to put the game away.  

The Mets have now lost 10 of their last 11. Yet, somehow they find themselves just 1.5 games back of Philadelphia for first in the NL East. But make no mistake, this is not a good team right now. 

The Mets haven't been able to find consistency as a team all season, and we are at the half-way point. 

At the star of the year, the issue was Juan Soto's struggles at the dish. The Mets made up for it because Pete Alonso was sizzling, and the pitching was surprisingly good. 

Now the pitching is awful; Alonso has cooled down a tad; five-through-nine in the batting order is a disaster. But at least Soto is now hitting well. 

What's it gonna take to turn this around? 

Gavin Lux gets a shower after the Reds beat the Yankees. Getty Images.

As for the Yankees, they suffered a brutal extra-inning 5-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday. The Yankees, like the Mets, built an early 3-0 lead, only to see it wash away on a three-run double by Christian Encarnacion Strand.   

Carlos Rodon had only 88 pitches through six shutout innings, but Manager Aaron Boone decided to go Jonathan Loaisiga instead in the seventh inning. It was a big mistake. But these are mistakes we have seen Boone make time and time again.  He is too quick on the trigger finger on starting pitchers, and at time it tends to bite the Yankees hand, much like it did on Tuesday. 

New York has now lost nine of its last 12 games. They still maintain a lead over Tampa Bay in the East, but it's down to one game. 

Between the two the Yankees appear to be more likely to survive this swoon. They are in an weaker league. The NL has 10 teams over .500 that are competing for playoff spots. And the Yankees don't have to contend with the Phillies or Braves in the AL East.

 The Rays are good, but they are not better than the Yankees.

 The Blue Jays aren't better either. 

The Phillies and Braves ARE better than the Mets. And that alone is a reason for concern for the team from Flushing. 

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