The New York Mets’ slide deepened Sunday with a crushing 7-6 walk-off loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, their seventh straight defeat and 11th in 12 games. New York squandered a 5-0 lead, faltering behind a shaky Sean Manaea outing and a bullpen that couldn’t close the door.
New York struck early, scoring twice in the first on RBI singles from Juan Soto and Jeff McNeil after Francisco Lindor was hit by a pitch and stole second. Brett Baty homered in the second, Ronny Mauricio added an RBI single in the third, and Cedric Mullins launched his first Mets homer in the fourth to make it 5-0. Pete Alonso’s RBI double in the fifth pushed the lead to 6-3.
Manaea, however, unraveled in the middle innings. After William Contreras’ homer opened the fifth, the left-hander loaded the bases and allowed a two-run single to Joey Ortiz. Contreras struck again in the sixth with his second home run, trimming the lead to 6-5. Ryan Helsley blew the save in the eighth, giving up Ortiz’s game-tying RBI single.
Edwin Díaz entered in the eighth for the final out but, pitching for just the third time in two weeks, surrendered a leadoff walk-off homer to Isaac Collins on his fifth pitch of the ninth.
After a day off Monday, the Mets (63-55) return home to open a three-game series with the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday at 7:10 p.m.
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