{"id":620132,"date":"2026-04-22T02:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:33:23","slug":"new-york-mets-drop-their-12th-straight-as-devin-williams-struggles-again-in-loss-to-minnesota-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620132\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets drop their 12th straight as Devin Williams struggles again in loss to Minnesota Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Embattled Mets closer Devin Williams<\/a> allowed a tiebreaking RBI single to Luke Keaschall<\/a> in the ninth inning, and New York lost its 12th consecutive game, falling 5-3 to the Minnesota Twins<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Mets\u2019 skid is their longest since they dropped 12 straight from Aug. 10-23, 2002. No team has made the playoffs after a season in which it lost 12 in a row.<\/p>\n

Matt Wallner<\/a> followed Keaschall by drawing a bases-loaded walk off Williams (0-1), who didn\u2019t retire any of the five batters he faced before being booed off the mound. Williams has allowed seven runs while recording four outs in his last three appearances.<\/p>\n

The Mets were in position to end their streak when Nolan McLean<\/a> retired the first 15 Twins batters and Francisco Lindor<\/a> hit a three-run homer in the third to give the Mets their biggest lead since April 5, when they beat the San Francisco Giants<\/a> 5-2.<\/p>\n

The homer was Lindor\u2019s first with a man on base since last Aug. 15 \u2014 one day before McLean\u2019s debut.<\/p>\n

Wallner led off the sixth with a single off McLean and Byron Buxton<\/a> homered with two outs. Keaschall tied the game with an RBI single in the seventh.<\/p>\n

A quartet of Twins pitchers retired the final 14 Mets in order. Cole Sands<\/a> (1-1) tossed the last two innings.<\/p>\n

McLean allowed three runs and struck out 10 in 6 2\/3 innings. Twins starter Simeon Woods Richardson<\/a> gave up three runs and struck out two in five innings.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Twins have yet to announce a starter for Wednesday, which was Richardson\u2019s day to pitch before he got moved up in place of the injured Mick Abel<\/a>. RHP Clay Holmes<\/a> (2-2, 1.96 ERA) is set to pitch for the Mets.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Jerry Beach, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Embattled Mets closer Devin Williams allowed a tiebreaking RBI single to Luke Keaschall in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-620132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}