Mets manager Terry Collins admitted the night had a “weird” feel to it.
The Mets were presented with a rare win-an-inning, win-a-game opportunity last night through the resumption of their Friday suspended game. So the closer sort of started, a late-inning guy came on in the second pitched inning and, for the truly weird, Ike Davis got a hit. Then in the regularly scheduled game, the opposing pitcher got his first two career RBIs — on his first-ever home run.
So, some things remained familiar. Like the Mets losing. Twice.
“When you’re playing bad baseball, you’ve got to play perfect baseball,” Collins said.
The Mets have been called many things this season, but perfect is not one of them. After the Braves won the completion of the suspended game, 7-5, the Mets barreled into the regularly scheduled game and got slapped around — by .063 hitting pitcher Mike Minor, who beat them, 6-0, with his bat and arm.
In partial summation, there was a costly leadoff walk by the Mets in the 10th and a botched bunt in their home half. And in the regularly scheduled game, where to call the Mets’ offense lifeless would be to insult a corpse, Minor’s two-run homer to left was one of six two-out hits the Braves strung against Dillon Gee (2-6) in a five-run fifth.
When two innings and one game of combined weirdness and customary outcomes were complete and the stands virtually were empty, the Mets’ losing streaks stood at five games overall and eight straight at home.
Plus, they wasted a Davis hit that broke an 0-for-17 skid and was just his second hit in 43 tries. Davis struck out swinging four times Friday before the game was suspended by rain.
In the regular game — which may have left FOX executives drinking bleach — the Mets had two infield hits (one a bunt), a misplayed pop-up single, two walks (one by Gee) and a hit batter against Minor (6-2), who exited with one out in the eighth after striking out 10.
Minor’s homer, his second hit of the game, followed a single by Chris Johnson. The Braves then strung together two doubles and two singles with Jason Heyward, Justin Upton and Freddie Freeman getting an RBI apiece.
The Mets advanced one runner, Gee, to second base against Minor. Gee walked and moved up on Ruben Tejada’s bunt single in the third. In the eighth, Minor hit Jordany Valdespin and exited one out later. Tejada singled on a fly to right that dunked in between two Braves setting up a first and third. Two outs followed. End Met highlights. They added ninth inning singles by Justin Turner and Mike Baxter against David Carpenter, who got the final two outs, including a Davis strikeout in a pinch-hitting role.
Not that the resumption game is being scoured for highlight clips. Although Davis’ hit to left that followed John Buck being hit by a pitch and brought the winning run to the plate in the bottom of the 10th, the Mets still went meekly.
The hit brought Tejada to the plate with two on, none out. Tejada failed horribly to get down a bunt, instead popping out foul. That play became more disturbing when pinch hitter Justin Turner, who started at first for Davis in the regulation game, rapped into a game-ending double play. Tejada’s failed bunt was another example of weird for Collins.
“He’s a fundamental type player,” Collins said. “We’re seeing some things that are very uncharacteristic of a lot of guys. Ruben Tejada handles the bat as well as anybody on this club. … I thought it was a no brainer he was going to get the bunt down.”
After a blown opportunity in the ninth, Atlanta greeted reliever Brandon Lyon (1-2) in the 10th with a two-run uprising featuring an RBI single by Dan Uggla and a successful squeeze bunt by B.J. Upton.
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