{"id":661141,"date":"2026-04-03T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:00:16","slug":"new-mets-flopping-as-rival-braves-get-back-to-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661141\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mets flopping as rival Braves get back to winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0It\u2019s been a week of bad baseball for the Mets and their fans \u2014 but it shouldn\u2019t be a death knell for a team with big aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/sports\/david-peterson-and-bats-both-flop-as-mets-fall-to-giants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have lost three straight<\/a> to drop to 3-4.<\/p>\n<p>Getting off to a good start was imperative for this team after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/01\/sports\/new-look-mets-still-trying-to-escape-last-years-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the slow-motion car crash<\/a> that cast a pall over the end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Luis Robert has been OK to start the season, but Bo Bichette and Jorge Polanco have not \u2014 the concerns about their defensive capabilities at new positions <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/29\/sports\/bo-bichettes-hitting-woes-are-not-the-early-concern-mets-should-worry-about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have given way to offensive issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0It\u2019s been a week of bad baseball for the Mets and their fans \u2014 but it shouldn\u2019t be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[46,5,5805,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-661141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-carson-benge","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341848562606457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}