The Mets have now gone 50 innings without a home run, and dropped yet another series after being blown out by the Nationals on Monday afternoon.
Buck Showalter said he didn't need to be told about the home run drought, as he watches the game from the dugout and knows about the team's current power outage, but also believes the team can score runs in other ways, and not doing that is the bigger issue.
"They got a lot of extra-base hits today, and we didn't. We're capable of it," Showalter said. "Just a bad combo right now. We're not pitching as well as we can, and the hitters, we're getting our hits - they had three or four more hits than us at the most - but there's a lot of parts of it we have to put together. It's not just one thing. But it is something, I understand people, it jumps out at them. I'm more about scoring runs. There's other ways to do it."
The Mets haven't found those other ways to do it, as they have scored three runs or fewer in six of their last seven games, and haven't won a series in a month, way back when they took down the Dodgers in the midst of what was a very promising west coast trip. But since then, New York has failed to ignite its offense against teams that are not expected to compete for a playoff spot in 2023, leaving Showalter to look back on chances where the Mets could have found ways to generate runs without the long ball in recent games, including Monday's series finale.
"We had a couple situations today where we would climb right back in there," Showalter said.
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