The Mets are already three games back!
The Mets are 40-21 (.656) in Home Openers, including 10-4 at Citi Field…The Mets won their home opener, 10-3, against Arizona last season…The have won it in each of the last three seasons and in seven of their last eight years (2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015).
The Mets are on a season-long three-game losing streak…The streak matches their longest of the 2022 season (6- 26-29, 7/17-23, 9/3-6, 9/12-14 and 9/30-10/2)….The last time the team lost four or more games was when they lost five straight from 9/21-26, 2022).
Vulgar Pete Alonso has a 14.4 percent strikeout rate over his last 50 games, the lowest in any 50-game stretch in his career…He’s struck out just four times in 30 PA this season (13.3 percent)…Each year he’s spent in the majors, his strikeout rate has decreased…He punched out at a 26.4 percent clip as a rookie in 2019…Last year, he posted a career-best 18.7 percent strikeout rate.
