But it's not different. It's the same crap we've seen for the last 10 years of playoff-less baseball. On nights when the starting pitching is great, the bullpen bombs. Or the offense is anemic.
It's been more than 10 hours since the end of last night's debacle against the Mets and I'm still pissed off. I know it's not normal and healthy to be affected by the outcome of a regular season game. But when you blow a 7-1 lead in the ninth inning against your biggest rival with the most obnoxious fan base, you get angry.
When you're up 7-1 against the first-place team in the ninth inning, you don't bring in a guy with a 5.40 ERA who gave up three runs in a third of an inning to the same team earlier in the week. But Joe Girardi did. James Norwood, who has no business pitching in the ninth inning, came in and did James Norwood things. He gave up four runs on four hits. On came Knebel, who usually starts innings, came into to try and close things down. Nope.
They've wasted back to back brilliant starts from Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola. They've lost four in a row and have three more games against the Mets this weekend. The weather is supposed to be awful tonight and tomorrow, so maybe they'll get lucky and get rained out.
The schedule for the rest of the month is an absolute nightmare. They have seven games against the Dodgers, three against the Padres, four against the Braves, two against the Giants, and after this weekend, three more at the end of the month against the Mets.
This team is in big trouble and needs to get its shit together in a hurry. Otherwise, it's going to look a lot like the last 10 seasons.
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