Baseball can be cruel. One week, you’re smashing home runs and lighting up the scoreboard. The next, it’s like swinging underwater.
The New York Mets know that feeling all too well right now. Their offense has gone eerily quiet, almost ghost-like. In their last seven games, they’ve managed only 10 runs—barely over a run per game.
On Tuesday, the silence was deafening: not a single run scored, not a single reason to rise from your seat.
No matter what they try, the Mets can’t seem to push runners across the plate. Opportunities come, brief flickers of hope, but they vanish as quickly as they appear.
And perhaps most telling—most painful—they haven’t hit a single home run in six straight games. For a team built with muscle and firepower, that kind of drought feels like watching a bonfire turn to embers.
Curveballs on the field and in life
As if things weren’t bleak enough, the Mets have a mountain to climb on Wednesday in the form of Garrett Crochet. He’s been one of the most dominant left-handed pitchers in baseball this season.
Powerful, precise, and ruthless, he’s the type of pitcher who thrives on keeping slumping offenses exactly where they are—down and out.
But Mets manager Carlos Mendoza isn’t going down without a fight. In a bid to change the team’s fortunes, he’s rolled the dice with a new lineup.
Wednesday’s lineup. #LGM pic.twitter.com/kakRAREzkT
— New York Mets (@Mets) May 21, 2025
Call it a mix of desperation and strategic boldness. Sometimes, that’s what it takes to wake a sleeping giant.
Lineup shuffle: Will change bring charge?
Typically, the Mets’ lineup has a familiar rhythm: Francisco Lindor leads off, followed by Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, and then either Brandon Nimmo or Mark Vientos. But not today.
On Wednesday, Mendoza is leading off with Lindor as usual—but that’s where the predictability ends. Starling Marte, who’s been quietly efficient against lefties this year with a 110 wRC+, has been bumped into the second slot.
The struggling Soto, with just a .217 slugging percentage over the past seven games, drops to third. Alonso moves to cleanup, and Vientos slides into the fifth spot.
The bottom of the order includes Luis Torrens, Tyrone Taylor, Luisangel Acuña, and Brett Baty. On the mound, Tylor Megill will try to steady a team that’s searching for any sign of momentum.
This kind of shakeup is like trying to rearrange the furniture in a burning house—maybe it won’t save everything, but it could help someone find the exit. Sometimes, a new view is all a team needs to break free from the fog.
Under pressure, will anyone rise?
The beauty and brutality of baseball lie in its unpredictability. One swing can change everything. One game can flip the script. Mendoza is banking on that—a spark, a hit, maybe even a home run—to reignite this team.
Crochet won’t make it easy. He’s been devastating against both lefties and righties this season, mixing his pitches with surgical efficiency.
But desperate teams often find ways to surprise you. The Mets have the talent, even if it’s gone into hiding lately.
What they need now isn’t just a win—it’s a reminder of who they are. A team with firepower, with swagger, with fight. A team capable of getting off the mat, even against someone as fierce as Crochet.