{"id":228179,"date":"2026-05-12T03:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228179\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:54:05","slug":"these-mets-are-broken-and-help-likely-isnt-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228179\/","title":{"rendered":"These Mets are broken \u2014 and help likely isn&#8217;t on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time the Mets returned to Citi Field, they were 11 games into a historic losing streak and had the worst record in baseball.<\/p>\n<p>When they open their homestand Tuesday against a Detroit team that\u2019s dropped five of six, the Mets will <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/10\/sports\/mets-no-show-offense-brutal-defense-sink-them-in-loss-to-diamondbacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">still have the worst record in the sport<\/a> and may be in an even more dire spot than before.<\/p>\n<p>Any hope that their awful start would last just a few weeks \u2014 as bad as that would have been \u2014 has been erased.<\/p>\n<p>And the reality of the situation is even more evident: The Mets are bad, and there doesn\u2019t seem to be an answer for how to turn their season around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last time the Mets returned to Citi Field, they were 11 games into a historic losing streak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20046,61278,38995,27921,20,9,11,320,10,319,428],"class_list":["post-228179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bo-bichette","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-marcus-semien","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}