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Brewers 4, Mets 1: Mets Struggle to Make More Places Like Home

MILWAUKEE — Just inside the doorway of the visitors’ clubhouse at Miller Park hangs a sign that serves as a reminder of one of baseball’s unwritten rules:

What you see here

What you say here

What you hear here

Let it stay here

When you leave here

This, of course, was where the Mets held a closed-door team meeting Wednesday. Almost midway through the season, their problems — the anemic offense, the amateurish infield defense, all those injuries — seemed to have the team nearing a tipping point. Manager Terry Collins wanted his players, veterans and rookies alike, to regroup, to regain their focus.