carlos mendoza watched The Mets get swept in Wednesday’s doubleheader by the Cachorros de Chicago, and the second game unraveled with six infield errors. The two losses left the club with 20 runs allowed on the day and another hard mark in a season already heading the wrong way.
Wednesday in Flushing
Six errors in one game usually means the defense never settled. That was the case here, with the infield giving away outs while the Cubs kept forcing the Mets to make every play cleanly. By the end of the second game, the damage had piled up well beyond one bad inning.
The sweep also pushed the Mets to 34-46 through Wednesday, leaving them in last place in the National League East. They were 14.5 games behind the Bravos de Atlanta and nine games out of the third wild card, a gap that reflects how quickly the season has slipped away.
David Stearns and the roster
David Stearns has already remade the roster, but the results have not followed. He did not retain Pete Alonso and sent Brandon Nimmo to the Vigilantes de Texas for Marcus Semien, moves that were meant to reshape the club instead of stabilize it.
That reshaping has run into the same problem again and again: availability. Pete Alonso spent seven years in Flushing, Brandon Nimmo averaged 152 encounters in his last four seasons with the team, Jorge Polanco had participated in 17% of his team’s games, Luis Robert Jr. had participated in 30%, and Francisco Lindor had missed 55 games. Juan Soto has still been productive when healthy, and the bullpen has mostly succeeded, but those pieces have not been enough to offset the losses around them.
Kodai Senga and the rotation
Kodai Senga is part of that picture too. He had not won a game since June 2025 and was 0-9 since then, a stretch that has left the rotation short of the steady start the Mets needed.
Freddy Peralta was acquired from Milwaukee to be the ace of the rotation, and Nolan McLean has had highs and lows in his first full major league season. Francisco Alvarez, Clay Holmes and Christian Scott also have been injured, while Jonah Tong was 1-5 with a 6.30 ERA in AAA and Jack Wenninger remains part of the next wave. Dylan Peterson, who had a 6.20 ERA since the All-Star break last year, was sent to the Cachorros de Chicago after the Wednesday debacle.
The Mets’ season has become a test of how much damage a bad stretch can absorb before the standings make the rest irrelevant. The six-error second game did not create that problem, but it showed it in its sharpest form.
