New York Mets: unbroken chain of defeats - Part 1
New York Mets have barely shown the requisite consistency of a competitive team. Facing the Colorado Rockies in last five encounters, the Mets’ performance has remained below average. The Rockies, on the other hand, went ahead with a positive outlook, not
leaving even an iota of doubt about their capability to prevail. A host of factors can be cited as to the reason why the Mets have found themselves in trouble.
The first game that the Mets had against the Rockies was indeed a difficult encounter for both teams. Nevertheless, at the end it was Rockies who proved superior. Mets lost the game by a close margin of one run. The 7-6 defeat was slightly discomforting
for the team as a whole, but the team manager seemed to be the most distressed for understandable reasons. "Everybody is as frustrated in this room as I am, but we've been in every single game but one," Mets manager Terry Collins said.
Nonetheless, he had hopes attaches to his characteristically good, though unpredictable, players. The team manager did not probably foresee what was about to transpire. The mistakes that the supposedly professional players had to overcome actually worsened
in the other games.
After the postponement of the next game on April 12, the April 13 game once again brought a situation that was completely deprived of any comfort for the Mets. They lost once again. Not by a big margin, but rather a defeat by one run. The curiously disconcerting
loss was another big blow to the troubled team.
Prior to the beginning of this game, the team manager struck a note that exhibited optimism and if closely observed, insinuated a message of remaining resilient in the face of difficulties. "I've been on teams where you go through a stretch like this, and
it's easy to slough off, it's easy to say, 'Woe is me. Here we go again. We'll just get ready for tomorrow,'" Collins said about his motivation for addressing the players. "We can't. We've got to press forward. We've got to come back and make tonight be the
night.”
However, looking back at his words, even if they made any impact did not ultimately prove motivating enough. Or, if the benefit of the doubt be given, the team was too unlucky to emerge victorious in the game, losing by only one run in the two games. Defeats
in the two games forced the team manager to hold a closed-door meeting. However, even that was not going to change the embarrassing outcome of the games ahead.
The third game on April 14 dealt another rude blow to the Mets. The team, hoping to make their mark, lost once again by the margin of one run. Rockies conquered the battle 6-5, leaving the Mets unsettled. Taking an early lead, the Mets would not
be able to maintain it and the Rockies took away the game even though remaining behind earlier.
Despite the undesirable result that resulted for the Mets again, the team manager had an unshakable hope that could not be shattered by defeats. "We're a better team. As I said, we're in every game. We've just got to take the next step. There's a lot of
guys playing hard. I'm watching guys run balls out, diving for stuff, running hard. But when the other team comes back, we need to recharge ourselves and do the things that we were doing when we had the lead.”
Collins’ optimism lay in the fact that despite all the defeats that his team suffered, the Mets had always tried to keep themselves in the game. For example, the whitewash the Mets were subjected to by Philadelphia Phillies, of 11-0 disconcertingly uninterrupted
defeats, the Mets’ manager thought they were always close in the game, but ended up losing. Nonetheless, the optimism was perhaps too misplaced.
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