The injuries can no longer be used as an excuse.
No matter how many Four-A players the Mets have playing out of position these days, manager Jerry Manuel's depleted club has only itself to blame for losses like yesterday's dreary, 4-1 setback to the Phillies.
There is something fundamentally wrong with the Mets these days, and it's a lack of basic defensive fundamentals.
They looked like something out of "The Bad News Bears" once again, misplaying two foul pop-ups in the same inning en route to their seventh loss in nine games. Continue
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