The New York Mets’ late-season slide continued on Wednesday night with an 11-3 defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park, extending their losing streak to five games and pushing them 10 games back in the National League East standings.
Starter Clay Holmes struggled early, plunking Bryce Harper to load the bases before allowing an RBI single to J.T. Realmuto. He then hit Max Kepler to force in another run. Holmes settled briefly through the middle innings but unraveled again in the fifth, yielding a leadoff single and a double to Brandon Marsh that pushed the Phillies ahead 3-1. Holmes was charged with four runs on six hits over four-plus innings with five strikeouts and three walks.
New York’s offense had few answers for Philadelphia starter Cristopher Sánchez, managing just four hits and one run over six innings. Juan Soto provided the Mets’ lone bright spot early, doubling in the fourth after a near-homer and later scoring on a Starling Marte single. Soto later launched a solo homer, his 39th of the season, in the eighth to cut the deficit to 9-2, finishing 3-for-4. Marte added two hits of his own, while Brett Baty drove in a run in the ninth.
The Phillies, meanwhile, broke the game open in the sixth and seventh, highlighted by Kepler’s three-hit, five-RBI night and Harper’s solo shot.
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New York will try to salvage the series finale on Thursday at 7:15 p.m. with left-hander David Peterson facing Philadelphia’s Jesús Luzardo.
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