This Week in Mets: The Mets have 10 days to save their season Contrary to how it feels, the New York Mets' season is not yet over. But it could be by the end of their upcoming homestand.

No, the Mets season isn’t over yet. But they’ve got only 10 days to save it:

Mets announce Tobias Myers will start for them Sunday. David Peterson had been the scheduled starter.

Making sense of Carlos Mendoza’s expiring contract situation with the Mets The Mets are confident that that that scrutiny has not and will not alter how Mendoza does his job.

Carlos Mendoza is in the last guaranteed year of his contract. How much does that matter?

Mets announce they've traded Richard Lovelady back to the Nationals for cash considerations. Lovelady had been DFA'd last week.

Mets quickly look and sound like the 2025 version Plagued by mental mistakes and a slumping offense, the Mets insist there are better days ahead: "We believe in each other."

This Week in Mets:

“But there’s no denying how frustrating it is for the fan base to hear the same the-talent-is-here rhetoric one year after the Mets cited it endlessly while giving away a postseason spot over the final months of the season to the 83-win Reds.”

In need of offensive jolt, slumping Mets to call-up outfielder Tommy Pham: Sources Through 16 games this season, the Mets' offense has a combined .658 OPS. The club has a 7-9 record over that stretch.

Tommy Pham is meeting the Mets in Los Angeles. From @willsammon.bsky.social:

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Final

In 25 percent of their games, the Mets have not scored a run through nine innings. They get swept by the A's and have lost five straight ahead of arguably their toughest road trip of the season.

The Mets are 7-9.

Three perfect innings of relief from Sean Manaea -- easily the best he's looked in 2026. Mets will have Polanco, Vientos and Bichette in the bottom of the ninth, down 1-0.

Freddy Peralta completes the sixth for the first time this season on an even 100 pitches. Only blemish the Nick Kurtz solo HR in the third. Still waiting for help from a Mets offense without a baserunner since the first.

Mets designate reliever Luis García for assignment New York recalled right-handed reliever Joey Gerber from Triple-A Syracuse to take García's spot on the roster.

In the first acknowledgement of an offseason move that didn't go according to plan, the Mets have DFA'd Luis García:

Ranking the Mets' early concerns: How serious are Francisco Lindor's mistakes?

The Mets are playing some bad baseball. Francisco Lindor’s run of mental mistakes isn’t topping the list of concerns. But it’s certainly up there. www.nytimes.com/athletic/718...

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Final

The Mets have gone 17 innings without a run.

The Mets are 7-7.

Those two runs scored on a Denzel Clarke single. It's 4-0 going to the bottom of the ninth.

Opposing hitters had been 2-for-33 off Tobias Myers this season before the first three Athletics have hits off him in this ninth inning. The A's lead is 2-0 with two more in scoring position and nobody out.

Mets had runners at the corners and nobody out, with 3-4-5 coming up. They did not score. That's 14 straight scoreless innings for the New York offense.

It's 1-0 A's.

Left hamstring tightness, the Mets say.

Clay Holmes is leaving with the trainer here in the sixth inning. Holmes has pitched well, allowing a run on five hits in 5 1/3 innings.

The Mets got “good news” on Jorge Polanco, whose MRI yesterday showed his Achilles tendon is healthy. Polanco is dealing with bursitis. Plan is to limit his defensive reps until that heals (with medication) and to let Polanco DH in the meantime. He should be available off the bench tonight.

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Final

David Peterson got hit hard early again. The Mets' bats went quiet. The four-game winning streak has ended.

The Mets are 7-5.

Carson Benge's ninth-inning single snaps an 0-for-24.

New York Mets’ Ronny Mauricio was ready in first big-league shot of 2026 Called up because of Juan Soto's absence, Mauricio delivered the first walk-off RBI of his career.

On Tuesday morning, Ronny Mauricio was told playing time would be limited during this latest big-league call-up. Tuesday night, he was mobbed by teammates after his first career walk-off.

“Baseball. It’s crazy, right?”

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Final/10

Down 0-2 in his first at-bat of the season, Ronny Mauricio drives a game-winning single to right field.

The Mets are 7-4.

For the third straight home game -- and fourth time in 11 games overall -- the Mets are going to extras.

Mets will have 8-9-1 (Benge, Alvarez, Lindor) against Kevin Ginkel with the chance to walk it off in the ninth.

Nolan Arenado's bloop double gives Arizona the lead. All three runs are charged to Freddy Peralta, who had two out and nobody on in this inning before ending his day with a single, walk and HBP.

Peralta's line: 4 2/3 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, HBP, 101-62-14 swinging strikes.

Adrian Del Castillo successfully challenged an inning-ending strike three from Huascar Brazoban -- then singled to right to score two and tie the game. It's 2-2 in the fifth.

(Don't expect Mauricio to play a whole lot during this stint in the majors. Carlos Mendoza said he's here to provide some defensive versatility at a time when Polanco and Baty are nursing some minor injuries.)

Mauricio has one minor-league option left. It's best to think of it as an option year. He can be sent back and forth to the minors as many as 5 times this year before the Mets have to expose him to waivers. The Mets saved that option for this season because he spent <20 days in the minors in 2025.

FYI: With the announcement of Carlos Beltran's number retirement, Tyrone Taylor has switched to No. 28.