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Add Six Infield Errors in One Game to the Mets’ Gloriously Humiliating Season
By Matt Schultz
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The Mets are in the throes of one of the most embarrassing seasons in recent MLB memory. They’re 34-46 (tied for the sixth worst in baseball), 14.5 games back in the NL East, and worst (best) of all, there isn’t even one particular aspect of the team to blame – they’re awful across the board. They rank 27th in batting average (.231) and 29th in OPS (.674, second to last in MLB), leading to a -46 run differential (26th). Their starting rotation has a 4.97 ERA (3rd-worst in baseball). They’ve committed 51 total errors (4th-most in MLB), resulting in a .982 fielding percentage (5th-worst) and 36 unearned runs allowed (7th-most). They’ve been dreadful in close games, posting a 7-12 record (.368) in one-run contests. So far in June, they’ve gone 8-13 (.381).
Marcus Semien is hitting .214 with a .613 OPS. Francisco Lindor is hitting .214 with a .637 OPS. Kodai Senga has a 10.08 ERA, 1.92 WHIP, and an 0-6 record. David Peterson’s awful 6.09 ERA and 1.65 WHIP just got him traded to the Cubs on Wednesday. The fire sale has begun. Everything has gone wrong. And somehow, some way, Carlos Mendoza still has a job.
And – it’s absolutely crucial to remember – the Mets have the most expensive team in baseball.
It’s horrendous. It’s glorious. And Wednesday, it got worse: The Mets committed six (!!!) infield errors in one game – Mark Vientos (2), Marcus Semien (2), Bo Bichette (1), and Francisco Lindor (1) combined for a franchise record, and it was beautiful:
I truly love seeing this stuff. It’s become one of my favorite parts of this baseball season. Every few days, something unthinkably bad happens with the Mets, and it’s a treat every single time. It never gets old. It lifts my spirits. It makes me feel like things are right in this world – especially considering the wild amount of shit-talking the Mets and their fans do before every season starts. It’s a fascinating thing to watch, over and over: They taste a little bit of success. Then they’re willing to spend more money than everyone else. Then they get some big, splashy names in free agency. Then, without fail, everything falls apart in the most gut-wrenching way possible.
And then we don’t really hear from their fans for a while, do we? You’d think after all the boasting and chest thumping they did with their Knicks, bragging about taking over everyone else’s stadiums, New Yorkers would be out here supporting their baseball team, right? But it’s crickets… Lot of empty seats in Citi Field these days… Pretty strange…
Instead they have Norwegians taking over their ballpark doing this kind of stuff:
Incredible. Think this tweet sums up Mets fandom pretty well:
The Mets and their fans are the best. They’re pretty decent for like a year or two and they all get excited and then they completely implode for 5-7 straight years until the cycle repeats
— generalgdubs (@generalgdubs) June 25, 2026
Thank you, Mets. Can’t wait to see what goes wrong next.
Matt Schultz is a comedy and sports writer from Philadelphia. He’s written extensively for ClickHole, The Onion, and Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco. His work has been featured in Vulture, Deadspin, The A.V. Club, Paste Magazine, and other publications. Much of his sports journalism can be found on college basketball websites that don’t exist anymore (PhilaHoops Heads rise up…) email: M.Schultz@sportradar.com