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NEW YORK — The New York Mets head into 10 straight games against NL East rival Atlanta and Philadelphia after getting swept in a series for the first time this season. New York was held to one hit in 20 plate appearances with runners on base, when the Tampa Bay Rays closed a three-game sweep with a 9-0 victory. 'You hate to get swept here at home, but you've got to move on,' Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. 'It's 162 (games), you're going to go through stretches where this is going to happen. Obviously we've got to play better. We didn't execute, we didn't play clean baseball and they made us pay.' New York hadn't been swept in 36 series of two or more games dating to last Aug. 9-11 at Seattle, its third-longest streak and the longest since a team-record 58 from May 15, 1987, through May 11, 1988. The Mets stranded 30 runners in the series and batted .148 (4 for 27) with runners in scoring position against the Rays, who are a big league best 18-6 since May 20. Starters Clay Holmes, Tylor Megill and Griffin Canning combined to throw just 13 innings for the Mets. Paul Blackburn, who will replace the injured Kodai Senga in the rotation, allowed four runs while getting just one out in relief. Megill and Canning gave up six runs apiece as the Mets division lead was cut to 2 1/2 games over Philadelphia. Atlanta shuffled its rotation to line up Spencer Schwellenbach, defending Cy Young Award winner Chris Sale and Spencer Strider in the series against the Mets. Ronald Acuña Jr. is hitting .390 with seven homers and 14 RBIs in his first 21 games since returning from a torn ACL. 'When you look at that team, on paper, that's a really good team,' Mendoza said. 'Obviously they've had some struggles. The three guys that we're facing, they're elite pitchers. And then you look at their lineup, they're healthy. We've got to get ready. The next 10 days, we've got to play well.'
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The Mets' pitching staff has been among the best and most surprising stories in baseball for most of the first half, and they still lead MLB in ERA despite a 9-0 trouncing by the Rays on Sunday to complete a weekend sweep at Citi Field. But the past week also has brought a few of those arms back down to earth and those legitimate offseason questions back to the surface. While staff ace Kodai Senga has joined Sean Manaea and free-agent signing Frankie Montas on the injured list, the Mets also received step-backward performances this weekend from previously capable rotation fill-ins Tylor Megill (Saturday) and Griffin Canning (Sunday). Advertisement The first-place Mets (45-27) will face NL East rivals the Braves (seven times) and the Phillies (three) over the next 10 games beginning Tuesday night in Atlanta, a stretch that will carry them past the 81-game midpoint of the regular season.
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This Week in Mets: The pitching staff hits a speed bump
'The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.' 'King Lear,' William Shakespeare The New York Mets' worst weekend of the season pivoted in Friday's sixth inning. New York had just extended its lead over the Tampa Bay Rays to 5-1 and appeared poised for its seventh consecutive victory. With Clay Holmes working on a tight pitch count, the Mets turned to Paul Blackburn out of the bullpen. It was the perfect script for the club, which wanted Blackburn to pitch multiple innings to stay fresh for his start this week in Atlanta. Advertisement Blackburn's outing lasted five batters, with four of them scoring. By the end of the inning, Tampa Bay had the lead, and the Mets have held it for all of about 10 minutes since. The decision to go with Blackburn in that spot highlighted the delicate balance the Mets are attempting to walk with their pitching staff. Specifically, they're trying to keep an eye on long-term health while still piling up wins in the here and now. Beyond anything else, the Mets' pitching staff has been the prime mover of their success this season. The starting rotation has been outstanding all year, the last two days notwithstanding, and the bullpen has received important contributions from a wide range of arms. The best chance of preserving that staff-wide success is not leaning too heavily on anyone. So it's pulling Holmes after just 79 pitches because he felt elevated soreness after pitching at the Colorado Rockies. It's trying to stay away from the most important relievers when the game permits it. It's occasionally thinking less about today than down the line — always a difficult tightrope to walk in New York. To that end, the club has internally discussed regularly piggybacking starters in the second half of the season. It would capitalize on the enviable starting depth the Mets have compiled while also keeping their core relievers fresher through the rest of the season. The upside is what happened in the series finale in Colorado last week, when Blackburn took the ball from Tylor Megill and carried it through the finish line in a blowout win. Without a game Monday, New York's relievers received two straight days off. (It's perhaps not coincidental that the unit delivered 4 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing a single hit, in Tuesday's extra-innings win over the Washington Nationals.) The downside is what you saw Friday. If a starter doesn't have it in the unusual role of relief, it can get ugly fast. And you end up needing to use other relievers anyway. Advertisement The last four days on the whole were a quick comedown for the staff after David Peterson's brilliant shutout Wednesday. Kodai Senga hit the injured list, his replacement was lit up as a longman, and Megill and Griffin Canning combined to allow 12 runs in eight innings Saturday and Sunday. It's the first real adversity to hit the staff since the spring injuries to Frankie Montas and Sean Manaea, and it rebounded then better than the Mets could imagine. How does the staff handle adversity now? The Mets were swept for the first time this season, losing all three to the Rays at Citi Field. New York is still in first in the National League East at 45-27. The Atlanta Braves have won consecutive series since dropping six in a row, though losing Sunday's series finale to the Rockies despite Grant Holmes' 15 strikeouts stung. At 31-39, they're 13 behind New York in the East. The Philadelphia Phillies picked up three games in three days by sweeping the previously hot Toronto Blue Jays, moving within 2 1/2 games of the Mets in the East. The Phillies play four at the Miami Marlins before rendezvousing with the Mets on Friday. at Atlanta LHP David Peterson (5-2, 2.49 ERA) vs. RHP Spencer Schwellenbach (5-4, 3.11 ERA) RHP Paul Blackburn (0-0, 6.75) vs. LHP Chris Sale (4-4, 2.79) RHP Clay Holmes (7-3, 2.87) vs. RHP Spencer Strider (1-5, 4.35) at Philadelphia RHP Tylor Megill (5-5, 3.95) vs. RHP Zack Wheeler (7-2, 2.76) RHP Griffin Canning (6-3, 3.80) vs. RHP Mick Abel (1-0, 2.35) LHP David Peterson vs. LHP Jesús Luzardo (6-2, 4.23) Red = 60-day IL Orange = 15-day IL Blue = 10-day IL • Senga will be shut down through this week and into next week before being re-evaluated. The general rule is that a pitcher needs as much time to build back up as he was shut down, so if Senga is down two weeks total before throwing again, it would take about another two weeks for him to return. A timeline of just after the All-Star break is probably as good as the Mets can hope for. Advertisement • Mark Vientos will start a rehab assignment Tuesday with Syracuse. • Montas had his worst rehab start yet Friday. There's only time for one more minor-league start before his 30-day rehab clock expires June 22. Montas says he's healthy and progressing toward where he wants to be; if the Mets deem he hasn't made enough progress, his return could be in the bullpen. • Jose Siri had a setback, with reimaging of his fractured tibia revealing it had not healed as much as the Mets had hoped. Siri is backing off running and baseball activities for about two weeks and will be re-evaluated. President of baseball operations David Stearns said Siri is still 'a ways away.' • Jesse Winker is still 'multiple weeks away' from a rehab assignment, Stearns said. Triple A: Syracuse vs. Jacksonville (Miami) Double A: Binghamton at Harrisburg (Washington) High A: Brooklyn at Aberdeen (Baltimore) Low A: St. Lucie vs. Palm Beach (St. Louis) • The Mets will approach Senga's rehab differently this time • Jeff McNeil changed his mentality, and then he changed his mechanics to show his value • Storylines to watch in advance of the trade deadline • Why the Mets are likely to add to the bullpen in July • David Peterson delivered the best start of the season • TWIM: Which Mets deserve to be All-Stars? I found 'King Lear' a little too much. I prefer the Lancastrian Tetralogy, myself. This Week in Mets will be taking a brief hiatus over the next two weeks so that I can enjoy a vacation. Whom did Francisco Lindor hit his winning home run off last year in Game 161 in Atlanta? (I'll reply to the correct answer in the comments.) (Photo of Clay Holmes: Dustin Satloff / Getty Images)
