This was a brutal loss to end a brutal series in Milwaukee. In the first two games, the combined score was 19-0 Brewers.

Then in this one, the Mets were down 4-1, then 4-2 when Alsonso hit an opposite field 2-run homer to make it 4-4. His next time up, Pete smacked a ball off the back wall in left.

However, in the 5th, the Brewers tied the score 6-6. The score stayed tied until the bottom of the ninth when Ottavino gave up a home run to some Brewers guy.

It would have been absolutely awful if it had happened in the postseason, but since it happened in April this game can (mostly) be forgotten, save for Pete's two home runs. That guy is awesome.

This loss dropped the Mets record to 3-4, bringing back memories of when they started 2-3 in 1986.

If you Google "Pete Alonso DEMOLISHES His Seventh Homer of the Season", you will see him do exactly that in a highlight from this game.

Note, "DEMOLISHED" is in all caps. It had to be that way.

Of all of the home runs in Pete's portfolio, this one to deep left field in the sixth inning (off the facing of the second deck) is his most impressive. It also turned a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead.

Pete DEMOLISHED that ball.

In the top of the ninth with one out and the Mets down 3-2, Pete Alonso hit one of the most impressive home runs I've ever seen (deep center field off the concrete facing of Oakland Coliseum) to tie the game.

Watching a Pete Alonso monster shot like that reminds me of the days of Darryl Strawberry. Only Darryl could hit one as high and as far as the one Pete hit on this day.

In the hazy, golden twilight of Dodger Stadium, Brandon Nimmo led off this game with a hit to deep right-center field that Jason Hayward misplayed into a three base error. Facing a man on third and no outs, Kershaw struck out Marte, Lindor and Alonso (all swinging) to end the inning.

In the bottom of the third inning, the Mets learned that J.D. Martinez absolutely owns Tylor Megill after Martinez hit his second home run of the game against him. Pham also made two errors on one play by muffing a base hit, then making a sloppy throw back to no one in particular. I'm not sure about that guy.

As night set in, the Mets bats went to bed early. Kershaw struck out nine in seven innings of scoreless baseball for his 200th career win.

Incidentally, Kershaw has the highest wins above replacement of any player in Dodgers history, including the Brooklyn era.

In his career against the Mets (17 starts not counting the 2015 NLDS), he's 11-0 with 123 strikeouts in 110 IP and a 2.03 ERA.

Rain-shortened to five innings, the Mets are defeated by the Braves for the 5,000th regular season loss in team history.

NYB Buff, thanks for pointing out the fact about the Mets suffering their 5,000th loss in this game. It's fitting that the milestone defeat came with the team wearing the horrible black jerseys that never should have been brought back. Those vampire costumes must be burned immediately!

Interesting note about this being the 5,000th loss in team history.

After this game their franchise record was 4667-5000, good for a .483 winning percentage.

.483 ranks them 21st out of 30 MLB teams, .001 points behind the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals.

The Mets are 333 games below .500 overall. Interestingly, the Houston franchise currently sits at .501, 13 games over .500. I can't support that. The Mets need to finish 96-66 for the next 11 years to get out of the red and into the black.

After this loss, the Mets are 2-6 in May after jumping out to a 14-7 start which had them 0.5 games back on April 21st. They're now 17-18 and 7 games back.

Listening to this game, I began to sense that familiar feeling of disgust for the first time this season. In addition to the onerous hospital commercials, the Mets pitched like zombies, giving up 13 runs.

35 games into the season, the staff ERA is now 4.71.

Looking for a silver lining, maybe this game will motivate the team to cut some dead weight and bring up Vientos and Mauricio from AAA in order to wake the team up. It would seem desperate if they were both batting .260, but Vientos (10 HR, 27 RBI) is batting .339 with a 1.121 OPS and Mauricio (6 HR 19 RBI is now playing second base and has a .333 BA and a .951 OPS.

Another silver lining from this game is that Mets batters went 5 for 9 with runners in scoring position. Still, that won't help when the Mets pitchers give up 13 runs as effortlessly as Dyar Miller milks a cow.

You know it's getting bad when the Thrivewell Infusion Mets player of the game, Jeff Brigham, DID NOT EVEN PLAY in this shambolic debacle. Howie had to choose someone, and any Met who actually played in the game was automatically disqualified.

Also, today I realized a possible cause of the Mets' recent slump. I haven't heard a Scott for Scott's commercial since the Mets were on the west coast. What happened? I know lawns aren't cool and all, but the Mets were winning with that guy. Why did they lose that account?

In order to turn their season around, they need to call up Vientos and Mauricio and bring back Scott for Scott's. That still doesn't help the pitching, unless Scott can do that too.

A three-run homer by Pete Alonso in the bottom of the tenth inning won this game for the Mets. It gave Pete walk-off home runs in each of four consecutive seasons. Only Kevin McReynolds from 1988 to 1991 had done this previously.

An instant classic. Since the Mets have only won the World Series once in my lifetime, to me, everything about that season is enhanced. To me, it's difficult to remember great individual games in seasons other than 1986. This is because if the Mets don't win the World Series, then those great individual games (from let's say 2005, 2006, 2014, or even 2022) tend to fade into the past and be forgotten more quickly. The reason I remember more games from 1986 than 2006 because most of my 2006 memories got flushed down the toilet that October in Game Seven of the NLCS, whereas the 1986 season will always stand out as a "Tiffany" season (in the spirit of the glossy version of Topps baseball cards) and the 2006 season (and every other season that did not result in a World Series win) is just a regular old common Topps set.

As of this writing, I do not know if the Mets will win the World Series this year, but if they do, this game will go down as one of the greatest games in Mets history, an all-time "Tiffany" game. However, if they falter in October, collapse in September, or lay down in August, this will just be another great game that becomes a minor positive note in an otherwise lost season.

Starting with Kodai Senga, he had Jacob deGrom-like stuff, striking out 12 in six innings, the most strikeouts by a Mets rookie since Noah Syndergaard in 2015. On this night, Senga looked like a number one starter, a mini-deGrominator (he's three inches shorter) and he left the game losing 1-0.

In the top of the 7th, Mets radio announcer Keith Raad invoked the announcer jinx when said something along the lines of the Mets are guaranteed a scoreless inning when Jeff Brigham pitches, and on the next pitch the Tampa Bay batter hit a home run against Brigham to make it 2-0.

Then the big moments. Vientos, in his first game of the year, hit a home run in the bottom of the seventh to make it 2-1.

In the bottom of the ninth, with the score 5-2 for the bad, Vogelbach and Marte got on with no out, bringing up Vientos, Baty, and Alvarez. I was sure the kids were going to do it. I wondered, can Vientos do it again?, but he flew out to center. Then Baty struck out, bringing up the man, the legend, the natural, Frankie Alvz. With two outs, Alvarez hit a three run homer, stepping up big time in the clutch to tie the game 5-5.

After Robertson uncharacteristically gave up two runs in the top of the 10th to make it 7-5, McNeil singled leading off the bottom of the tenth, putting two men on base, since the inning had started with a runner on second. After Lindor struck out, Pete Alonso came to the plate. The fans were chanting PETE ALONSO! PETE ALONSO! and on an 0-1 pitch Pete hit a three run homer that turned this game from a possible bitter loss into possibly one of the all-time great Mets wins (in the regular season).

In the Associated Press recap of the game, the writer stated:

A tying two-run homer in the seventh by Mark Vientos, brought up from the minors for his season debut, was only the third-most memorable long ball of the night.

They couldn't have been more accurate. The article also included this quote by Vientos:

“Go! Go! Go! Go!” Vientos remembered telling the ball. “Maybe it listened to me. Maybe it didn't. But who knows?”

This quote made me think, a rookie who talks to baseballs? This guy sounds like an all-star.

This thrilling game is currently in contention for one of the greatest Mets games of all time, contingent on making the postseason and winning the World Series. If they do win it all this year, then Mets fans can look back on this game and know that it all started here.

About my earlier comment on this game, I just want to clarify that Pete Alonso was the second METS player after Kevin McReynolds to hit a walk-off home run in four straight years. I wasn't referring to all major leaguers. Pete's game-winner in the tenth inning also made him the sixth player to share the team record of four career walk-off homers. In addition to Alonso and McReynolds, the others to accomplish this feat with the Mets were Cleon Jones, Chris Jones, Mike Piazza, and Wilmer Flores.

I didn't watch this game live but looked at the video highlights of it later. I saw that Pete Alonso's grand slam came off a Cleveland pitcher wearing #99. I thought it was Ricky Vaughn from the Major League movie, but he wasn't wearing black-framed glasses. Charlie Sheen's character wasn't really the one on the mound for the Indians (sorry, the Guardians), but that "Wild Thing" song still started going through my mind.

Another classic game. In the top of the ninth inning before commercial, Howie Rose was FIRED UP like I haven't heard him in a while.

Lindor's slap base hit to right was the game winner, but the play that will always stand out for me was when Escobar stole second in the 10th.

When I saw the steal on the game highlights, the way his feet were moving reminded me of the song "Come on Feet" from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For the uninitiated, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a film that will blow your mind.

It looked like Escobar's feet were in fast motion but his body was lagging, and I could imagine him yelling, "Come on Feet! Do your thing!"

Pete Alonso hit a grand slam on this night. It was his fourth straight game with a homer and the slam completed a home run cycle for him. Pete had slugged solo, two-run, and three-run homers in each of the previous three games.

I was at this game, worried about traffic because of double header. Nice duel. Quick win.

Attended this game with my 2 brothers. Visiting Denver from New York so we thought we'd check out Coors Field. Beautiful ballpark and surroundings.

Attended this Sunday game with my 2 brothers while visiting from New York. We attended Friday nights game too. Prior to the game, my brother and I walked all the way up the top bleachers in centerfield, then around to all the way to the top of the upper deck in back of home plate. Nimmo and Alvarez were very nice signing autographs for the kids. Unfortunately the Mets stunk up the place, especially Megill.

Some genius once said, "you can laugh or you cry" and this is one of those games where you just have to laugh, and not just laugh, but a big hearty guffaw.

As the Braves announcer said (it was on the mlb.com highlights of the game) "Those boys came down from the Big Apple and they got baked into apple pies." True dat homie!

Some random thoughts one this one, since my brain is no longer capable of writing from laughing so doggone much.

Lindor is currently a spectator; he is no longer producing and even his 20 pairs of shoes seem tired.

Marte's error in the first inning was the 2023 Mets season encapsulated in one play.

Nimmo is playing like a perennial All Star. He had his first career grand slam and a diving catch.

Baty made a great play in the field, driving to his left and then gunning down the guy a step off first base.

Alvarez hit two lasers with some serious arc that both barely cleared the fence and looked like hard doubles off the bat. That kid is a BEAST.

Vientos needs to take the bat off his shoulders and swing at the ball. He struck out looking twice, once with the bases loaded.

The Mets radio announcers (Howie doesn't do road games anymore) are really annoying. I want to give them a chance, but when the team is losing they are impossible to listen to and they are a natural cure for insomnia. They both sound exactly alike and what they say either annoys me or puts me to sleep. To my brain, they sound like two frat guys announcing a foosball tournament. Therefore, I slept through most of this one and only watched the highlights on mlb.com after they were posted.

Almost as bad as the Mets radio B-team, the Mets team ERA now stands at 4.68.

They should give Scott Kazmir a shot in this rotation.

Spent the weekend in the Burgh, including my first visit to PNC Park for these three games.

Not a great stretch for our Mets, but PNC is a beautiful park and an awesome place to watch a game. Had seats in the front row over the Pirates’ dugout for this one.

Pittsburgh folks, who call themselves yinzers, are warm, friendly, and welcoming - even to visiting fans.

This game highlighted a flaw with the "free runner" or whatever it is called, scoring. Abreu, the Yankee pitcher faced four batters, got them all out and didn't allow any runner to advance. Yet Abreu was charged with an earned run and the loss. He got three outs in the ninth and in the tenth got the first out without allowing the free runner to advance. Abreu was replaced by Ramirez who yielded a double and an Earned run charged to Abreu and loss charged to Abreu!

This squad (can't really call them a 'team') really reminds me of the disappointing 2004 Mets that finished 71-91.

Instead of Leiter and Glavine (and Anna Benson), this team has Scherzer and Verlander (and Kate Upton), with Leiter and Glavine outclassing their 2023 counterparts (for the most part).

Also Kate Upton may be more beautiful, but Anna Benson had more personality and spontaneity.

After 73 games, the 2023 Mets are 34-39.

After 73 games, the 2004 Mets were 36-37.

Maybe they can turn things around by inducing a reverse wormhole and signing Scott Kazmir, but it's probably too late.

Either way, BRING BACK SCOTT KAZMIR!

@Hot Foot: Check your facts. There was no connection between Tom Glavine and Anna Benson. And why do want to bring back a player from almost 20 years ago?

Your post doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Another laugher. Laugher in the sense of Mets tragi-comedy, not laugher as in blowout.

I was listening to this one and the Mets had a lead but Keith Raad (bless him, I wish him the best but he sounds like Wayne Hagin's son, if Wayne Hagin made a baby with Josh Lewin) was annoying me so I turned the volume down on my phone until Howie came back, but guess what?

I completely forgot about the game and then checked the score. As my phone was loading the ESPN website, I thought to myself, If the Mets won that game, it's a miracle, and then I was confronted with the headline: "Mets walk 3 batters, hit 2 and make 1 error in 8th-inning meltdown and lose 7-6 to Phillies"

HA! HA HA! HA!

Immediately I thought, Who pitched in this one? Braden Looper?

By the way, if it weren't for this post, no one would ever remember this game because the 8th inning was so ugly it would be deleted from all Mets fans' memories, but to me my involuntary flashback of Braden Looper was so funny (to me) that it needed to be documented.

Here is the breakdown of the bottom of the 8th:

J. WALKER PITCHING, 6-3 Mets, Harper walked. Realmuto singled to left, Harper to second. Stott walked, Realmuto to second, Harper to third. ( Walker got sent down after this outing but I still love him because he adopted a kitten last year)

J. BRIGHAM PITCHING, still 6-3 Mets, Bohm grounded into fielder's choice to third, Harper scored, Stott safe at second on throwing error by third baseman Baty, Realmuto to third. 6-4 Mets. Marsh walked, Realmuto scored, Bohm to second, Stott to third. 6-5 Mets.

Clemens hit for Sosa, Clemens struck out swinging. Schwarber hit by pitch, Stott scored, Marsh to second, Bohm to third. 6-6

Turner hit by pitch, Bohm scored, Schwarber to second, Marsh to third. 7-6 Phillies. Pache ran for Schwarber

V. NITTOLI (Hey! My cousin Vinny! Gettaouttahea!) PITCHING, 7-6 Phillies. (Just kidding, he's not my cousin) Castellanos struck out swinging. Harper flied out to center.

Needless to say, the Mets went quietly in the 9th, sealing this 'win' for all Mets comedy lovers. Hey, you gotta look at the bright side.

Scott Kazmir, where are you?

Great comeback - down 1-0 on Arizona in the top of the 9th on just 4 pitches, Alvarez hit a HR on a 3-2 pitch to tie it, then after a walk to Baty, Canha hit a long triple to take the lead. A great finish!

I don't care what the official distance was, Pete's first home run in this game had to be among the longest in Citi Field history. It was in the second deck, but it was in deep left center and it was toward the back of the section he hit it to, almost on the concourse. That guy has some power, man.

We attended this game with tickets given to us. It was a disappointing game like so many this year - winnable with some more clutch hitting and better pitching.

At least we got to see Ohtani hit and he is the real deal - one of a kind. We did not get to see Trout because of an injury.

A weird game: Mets led 1-0 after 8 innings but the Marlins scored 2 runs in the top of the 9th when the game was stopped by rain and suspended after a few hours.

The game was supposed to be resumed on the Monday after the season if it affected the Marlins wild card quest but it did not, and the 9th inning was not resumed. Instead, the result reverted to the 1-0 score for a Mets win after the season was over.

The lucky guy was pitcher Anthony Kay who gave up two runs that are now wiped out of the record book. In the old days, this often happened. But now that most shortened games are suspended and resumed, it is rare.