MIAMI — The Mets are officially mad, but that hardly guarantees they will get even.
Start with manager Terry Collins’ pronouncement that he was “pissed off” last night after the Mets’ sixth straight loss, 2-1 to the Marlins on Brandon Lyon’s game-ending wild pitch, and move to the fact Bobby Parnell was angry he never got in the game.
Just another torturous night at the office for the Mets.
“I’m pissed off — extremely pissed off,” Collins said after watching the Marlins score twice in the ninth, a night after the Mets lost in the 15th inning. “We’ve played hard. We’ve been in two games, we were in two games at home we should have won. They are playing as hard as they can. We’re not hitting.”
Or getting the big outs. Lyon entered with runners on the corners in the ninth with nobody out because Collins was leery about using Parnell for a third straight day. The righty had pitched two innings in relief the previous night.
Parnell was visibly upset afterward, first shoving a chair with his foot as he left his locker area. When approached by The Post for a comment about not getting the ball, the usually affable closer simply said, “Nope,” and walked away.
“He’s mad and he should be, because he’s the closer,” Collins said. “But I’m just not going to break this guy this early.”
It didn’t help the Mets that third-base umpire Tim McClelland appeared to miss a call in the ninth. Anthony Recker threw to third in an attempt to nail Chris Coghlan on Juan Pierre’s bunt. Replays showed Coghlan off the bag with David Wright applying the tag, but McClelland ruled the runner safe.
That ended Jeremy Hefner’s night after eight-plus innings, four hits and a career-high eight strikeouts.
Donovan Solano’s ensuing single off Lyon tied the game before Placido Polanco was intentionally walked to load the bases. With Greg Dobbs at the plate, Lyon unloaded a wild pitch.
Wright, who argued with McClelland on the tag play, refused to criticize the umpire’s call afterward.
“I’m not going to get into that,” Wright said.
The team captain then put the blame on the Mets.
“We can’t expect to win games 1-0, so offensively we need to do a better job,” Wright said. “We’ve had some guys get cold at the wrong time. Collectively, we need to go out and start producing, because we’re not.”
Hefner (0-3) had retired 11 straight batters entering the ninth before Coghlan stroked a pinch-hit single to begin the Mets’ downfall. Recker was then charged for a passed ball, moving the tying run into scoring position. But Recker’s most controversial play was throwing to third in an attempt to nail Coghlan on Pierre’s bunt.
“[Pierre] dropped it pretty much in front of the plate for me and I knew we needed to get an out,” Recker said.
“I just tried to make a play that I probably shouldn’t have tried to make. The throw was a little bit high, a good throw might have had him, but you probably don’t need to make that play. You just need to get an out.”
Recker’s sacrifice fly in the fifth against Kevin Slowey accounted for the Mets’ only run. The Mets have scored three runs or fewer in eight of their past 12 games, hitting .189 over that stretch.
Hefner blamed himself for not finishing the job.
“They got a run for me,” Hefner said. “And that’s my responsibility to go out there and finish the game off.”