Even in a lost season, the Mets seem utterly lacking in direction. Seeing the team turn an early lead into a deficit and eventually lose wasn’t anything new, of course, but to the extent that the team has a focus, it seems to be on making decisions that are as unproductive as possible.
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The sequence of the game itself was pretty simple. With a run scored in each of the first, third, and fourth innings, the Mets had an early lead. Corey Oswalt went six innings having given up just one run—on opposing pitcher Julio Teheran’s first major league home run—but coughed up two in the seventh without recording an out in that inning.