The Mets carried an 11-game losing streak into Tuesday night’s game against the Twins, a matchup that found New York at 7-15 and still searching for its first win in two weeks. First pitch was set for 7:10 PM EDT, with the Mets bringing one of the worst stretches in the majors into Target Field.
New York’s skid was defined by failure in every part of the game. The Mets went into the series last in wRC+, OBP, SLG, OPS, runs scored and fWAR during the slump, while hitting.200 as a team, producing seven home runs and getting a 5.43 ERA from the rotation and a 6.05 mark from the bullpen. Their last victory before the streak was a walk-off on Ronny Mauricio’s hit against the Diamondbacks, but since then the losses piled up, including a weekend sweep by the Cubs in defeats of 12-4, 4-2 and 2-1.
That history matters because it is the backdrop for a team that is already being asked to stop the bleeding before the season gets away from it. The Mets had dropped two of three in Minnesota last season, though they took two of three from the Twins at Citi Field in July 2024. Now they arrived in Minneapolis with Mark Vientos having ended an 0-for-23 stretch, Brett Baty snapping an 0-for-22 skid, and Tommy Pham making his debut during the losing run, but none of that had yet changed the overall picture.
The Twins were not exactly riding in with momentum of their own. They entered at 11-11, sitting third in the AL Central behind the Guardians and the Tigers, and had lost four straight after being swept at home by the Reds and dropping their series finale to the Red Sox. The Reds loss was especially painful: Minnesota gave away a lead in the ninth, briefly retook it in the bottom of the inning, and still lost in 10 innings.
So the series opened with both clubs trying to keep a slide from defining the month. The Mets needed a break from an 11-day offensive and pitching collapse; the Twins needed to stop a shorter but still costly skid before it pushed them further behind in the division race. For New York, the question is not whether the slump has been ugly. It is whether one win can still arrive before the season narrative hardens around it.
