The Subway Series didn’t quite go as planned for the Mets.
They dropped two out of the three games in the Bronx with the latest one coming in ugly fashion — as a Pete Alonso error in the bottom of the eighth led to the Yankees scoring six times to close out the series victory.
The Mets were sloppy defensively. They scored just seven runs over the three games. Simply put, they were outplayed in almost every facet of the game.
But they can’t sit back and sulk over it because the road ahead doesn’t get any easier.
The Mets head out to Boston for three games with the Red Sox starting on Monday before returning home to host Shohei Ohtani and the high-powered Dodgers for a three-game weekend set.
“We’ll take it one day at a time,” Carlos Mendoza said. “We knew that this is a good team — we didn’t get the job done and we lost the series. Now we have to get ready for another good team before we start thinking about what’s next.
“That’s our mentality here, we have to turn the page — I think we do a pretty good job of doing that. I’m pretty sure the guys will be ready to go tomorrow for a new series against a very good team in Boston.”
How can they turn things around? Alonso simply says by playing “clean quality baseball.”
“That’s really what it boils down to,” he said. “I think we did a good job of battling and putting together quality at-bats tonight and throughout the weekend, it’s just a matter of making plays and driving in a couple of runs when guys are on base.”
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