The Mets suffered their fourth consecutive loss on Saturday night, as the team managed just three hits and let up four runs in the final two innings, resulting in a 5-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
After the loss, Pete Alonso was open about how frustrating it is to drop a game they could have easily won. The All-Star acknowledged the team's struggles at the plate with runners on base late in the game, and was disappointed they "couldn't close this one out."
"Yeah, extremely frustrating for sure," Alonso said. "I mean, I don't know where this would rank. But, I mean, it's frustrating and a bit disappointing to come up short like that. I mean there's a lot of things that we could for sure improve on.
"I mean, we didn't hit well. We had some opportunities, especially there late in the game. That's a tough one. We had guys on base late in the game in the seventh and eighth inning, yeah, nothing came of it. We just had Brandon's [Nimmo] homer and one run isn't going to get it done. I mean, [Kodai] Senga pitched incredible, thought we played great defense as a whole. Just couldn't close this one out unfortunately."
In the top of the eighth inning, Alonso made a slightly high throw to Francisco Lindor on what should've been a double-play, but instead the throw back to first was just late, allowing a run to score. Afterwards, Alonso said he made an "OK throw" on the play, but "threw it just a bit too high."
"I don't regret making my decision of throwing to second, just wish I could've executed a little better," Alonso said when asked about the play.
The mistake wasn't the only made by New York late in the game, as Brett Baty misplayed a pop-up in the top of the ninth that allowed the Dodgers to score and keep the inning alive. Los Angeles went on to score two more runs in the ninth and take a commanding 5-1 lead. After the game, the third baseman explained what went wrong on the play and said there aren't any excuses for the mistake.
"Lefty was up, I was trying to hold the runner close to the bag, and it went up, I actually thought I was going to catch it in foul ground. And then took my eye off it for one second, and kind of got spun around. But there's no excuses for that, play needs to be made," Baty said.
Baty added: "Just with the lefty hitting it, it had some funky spin on it for sure. I originally went into foul ground like I was going to catch it in foul ground, looked down to make sure I didn't hit the base, and then it came back into fair territory. And then made it worse too by diving for it and letting it scoot away. That was bad."