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Terry Collins dissects Mets’ offensive woes after disheartening loss
- Updated: June 2, 2016
8:16 PM ET
NEW YORK — New York Mets manager Terry Collins often has preached that you cannot dwell on what you lack. Instead, the 25 players on the active roster have to find a way to get things done, whether or not the team is shorthanded.
Yet even Collins found himself acknowledging after Wednesday’s 2-1, 13-inning loss to the Chicago White Sox that the Mets are hamstrung by the absences of David Wright, Lucas Duda and Travis d’Arnaud. Add to that Yoenis Cespedes requesting the series finale off despite being 6-for-13 in his career against White Sox starter Miguel Gonzalez and it’s certainly understandable why the Mets struggled at the plate during their latest disheartening defeat.
“I don’t think there’s any question that’s a major part of it,” Collins said. “In baseball you’ve got to pick each other up. You’ve got to have somebody step up when somebody else hasn’t. We’ve been doing that a lot, but we didn’t get it done this homestand. And we had a lot of opportunities to win a number of games on this homestand. We couldn’t put a big hit on the board.
“But we’ve talked about it: It’s one thing to give a guy a day off. It’s another when you’ve got four guys out of your lineup. Those are big holes.”
Still, Collins found it difficult to excuse what happened Wednesday. The Mets drew 13 walks. Thirteen. No team had drawn that many walks in a game and lost since the Yankees in 2006. More damning, the Mets became only the second team since 1893 to draw 13 or more walks and fail to exceed one run, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The other was the Dodgers … back in 1953 when they played in Brooklyn.
The Mets grounded into five double plays, one shy of matching the …
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