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Wilmer Font latest reliever to doom the Mets

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The Phillies take down the Mets again

PHILADELPHIA — The lines of gasoline were in place as Walker Lockett departed Tuesday night’s game after pitching reasonably well into the sixth inning. In came Wilmer Font, carrying a blowtorch.

And in almost predictable fashion this atrocious Mets bullpen had another night to forget. What the Font?

With the recently reliable Font hammered for two homers in the inning the Mets lost their third straight, 7-5 to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park, and fell a season’s worst six games below .