MILWAUKEE \u2014 Starling Marte\u2019s legs churned toward home plate with the tying run in Friday\u2019s ninth inning, but perfection got in his way.<\/p>\n
There was a perfect throw from Blake Perkins and an equally impressive swipe tag by William Contreras. Marte was out.<\/p>\n
Game over.<\/p>\n
The Mets losing streak was still alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cA tremendous throw on one bounce, so you have to give him credit over there,\u201d Marte said through an interpreter after the 3-2 loss to the Brewers at American Family Field. It was the fifth straight Mets defeat and ninth in 10 games.<\/p>\n
The anemic Mets lineup slumbered from the third inning until the ninth. <\/p>\n
Marte delivered a two-out double against Trevor Megill in the ninth, and Jeff McNeil\u2019s ensuing single screamed \u201ctie game,\u201d but the throw by Perkins from center dashed those hopes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I could have done anything differently,\u201d Marte said. \u201cI ran the bases well. My sprint speed was up in a situation like that, but at the end of the day, there isn\u2019t much you can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mets managed just five hits only hours after president of baseball operations David Stearns expressed confidence the team would emerge from its latest offensive drought. <\/p>\n
Stearns also indicated hitting coaches Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes weren\u2019t the problem.<\/p>\n
A diving Starling Marte is tagged out at home by William Contreras for the final out of the game in the ninth inning of the Mets\u2019 3-2 loss to the Brewers on Aug. 8, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
For a third straight game, the Mets were held to two runs or fewer. They have totaled six hits in their past two games combined.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, in those middle innings, we had a hard time creating traffic,\u201d manager Carlos Mendoza said.<\/p>\n
Brandon Woodruff inflicted most of the misery on this night by allowing two runs (on early homers by Juan Soto and Marte) on three hits over seven innings with eight strikeouts and two walks. <\/p>\n
Kodai Senga is taken out of the game during the fifth inning of the Mets\u2019 loss to the Brewers. Benny Sieu-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
The Brewers, who own MLB\u2019s best record at 71-44, won their seventh straight.<\/p>\n
In his fourth straight uninspiring start, Kodai Senga lasted just 4 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings and surrendered three runs, two of which were unearned, on two hits and three walks with two strikeouts. <\/p>\n
He was removed at 79 pitches with the bases loaded in the fifth. Senga has reached five innings only once in five starts since returning from the injured list July 11.<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso looks on during the Mets\u2019 loss to the Brewers. Benny Sieu-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Soto\u2019s second homer in as many at-bats gave the Mets their initial run. <\/p>\n
Soto, whose ninth-inning blast Wednesday was the team\u2019s only hit against the Guardians, jumped on a 2-2 sinker from Woodruff in the first inning and cleared the right field fence.<\/p>\n
Marte\u2019s homer leading off the second extended the lead to 2-0. It was the fifth homer this season for Marte and his first since June 5 at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n
Juan Soto hits a solo homer in the first inning of the Mets\u2019 loss to the Brewers. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Brewers wasted Caleb Durbin\u2019s double leading off the third. <\/p>\n
Durbin didn\u2019t help matters by getting thrown out attempting to reach third on Joey Ortiz\u2019s grounder to shortstop. Francisco Lindor threw to Ronny Mauricio at third, erasing the lead runner for the first out.<\/p>\n
Brice Turang hammered a two-run homer in the fifth to tie it 2-2. Senga booted Perkins\u2019 chopper for an error, and Turang jumped on the next pitch, a cutter, and launched it beyond the right field fence.<\/p>\n
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Senga has surrendered five homers in his past four starts. He allowed just four over his first 14 starts this season.<\/p>\n
Francisco Alvarez was called for catcher\u2019s interference in the fifth, allowing Sal Frelick to reach base following a walk to Ortiz with one out. <\/p>\n
After Contreras walked to load the bases, Senga was replaced by Brooks Raley, who plunked Isaac Collins to force in the go-ahead run. <\/p>\n
But with the bases loaded, Raley struck out Christian Yelich and got Andrew Vaughn to hit into a fielder\u2019s choice, keeping the deficit at 3-2.<\/p>\n
The last real opportunity for the Mets against Woodruff occurred in the fourth, when Brandon Nimmo walked and McNeil delivered a one-out single before Alvarez hit into an inning-ending double play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t been hitting the last few games, but this is a team that continues to work hard, that has a great amount of talent,\u201d Marte said. \u201cRight now, we\u2019re hitting a low point in the season, but I know and I am confident this team is going to turn it around. Eventually, it\u2019s going to turn, and it\u2019s going to turn quickly.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Starling Marte\u2019s legs churned toward home plate with the tying run in Friday\u2019s ninth inning, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[7842,33987,2325,363,1189,99,33989],"class_list":{"0":"post-71874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-juan-soto","9":"tag-kodai-senga","10":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-starling-marte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}