SAN FRANCISCO — If there’s one thing Bo Bichette isn’t going to do, it’s make excuses.

Thursday night, with the Mets trailing the San Francisco Giants by five runs, Bichette came up with Juan Soto on first base and only one out. Facing former Mets’ prospect Blade Tidwell, Bichette sent a line drive to the left side… only to see it go directly into the glove of a leaping Casey Schmitt at first base for a double play.

Earlier in the game, he was about a foot away from hitting his first home run in a Mets uniform, but the ball was caught at the wall by another former Met, Harrison Bader. Typically, you’d expect a 390-foot fly ball to leave the park. Still, it’s not that easy at the waterfront park in San Francisco, where the thick marine layer makes it tough for balls to travel long distances, and quality defenders like Bader can rob hitters of homers over the wall.

“I thought I hit it OK,” Bichette said after the Mets’ 7-2 series-opening loss. “But I mean, if I thought I got it, I would have come out of the box a little different.”

Bad luck? Maybe, but not according to the Mets’ new third baseman. Sometimes, you have to create your own luck.

“That’s not something to fall back on,” Bichette said. “We should always be looking to do better, to be better. So that’s what we’ll do.”

Seven games into the season, the new Mets are hitting like the old Mets. Still, there are signs that Bichette is on track to start looking more like the hitter he was in Toronto, where he was a two-time All-Star.

“He’s fine,” said manager Carlos Mendoza. “I think other than the first three games at home, he’s settling in nicely. Not trying to do too much, letting the game come to him.”

The Mets signed the 28-year-old to a three-year, $126 million contract in January for several reasons, one of the biggest being his career .326 batting average with runners in scoring position. Despite his current average of .129, he does have four RBI, including one Thursday night that came via a double to left field off left-hander Robbie Ray. The approach, the swing, the process — everything is all there. The results haven’t come yet, but with the at-bats the Mets are seeing, the club feels as though it’s only a matter of time. Whether he wants to consider luck as a factor or not, his .174 BaBIP does show he’s been pretty unlucky so far.

“I’ve liked my at-bats for the last four games,” Bichette said. “But it’s baseball. You can’t control everything.”

Bichette’s comments after the first home series show how much he cares about producing for the Mets and for the fans who cheer for them. After all, he once shouldered an entire country’s baseball hopes. He understands that New York is different, but also that in this era of baseball with so much information available to casual fans, diehard fans, the media, and everything in between, every stat can be viewed through whatever lens they please.

“I think people are looking at everything every day, throughout the whole season,” he said. “Some years you get off to a good start, some years you don’t. That’s just part of the game.”

Bichette is under a microscope at the moment, being on a new team and playing a new position. As he said, he can’t control everything, but he can control the work he puts into turning around his numbers. His work ethic is another reason the Mets signed him to that contract, and he expects himself to make good on it.

“Things go up and down, not that you’re OK with it, but you figure out a way to get better,” he said. “That’s baseball, you come back tomorrow and do it again.”