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By Brian Joura
We all know that the bullpen is horrific and Buck Showalter’s unwillingness to push his starting pitchers to give more only slightly better. But as Woodrow says over and over again, the offense leaves an awful lot to be desired, too. In the last 14 games, the Mets have scored 49 runs, an average of 3.5 runs per game. And it’s only that high due to a three-game stretch within those 14 games where they plated 24 runs.
The offense teases us with these occasional outbursts. But they’ve been shut out 14 times this year, have scored just one run 14 more times and have exploded for two runs a whopping 23 times. In those 51 times where they’ve scored two runs or fewer, the Mets are 8-43. If anything, the fact that they’ve won eight times in these games is kind of impressive. But my preference would be to be impressed by the times they put up seven runs or more, a feat they’ve accomplished just 34 times this year.
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