The New York Mets unraveled at Citi Field on April 26, dropping both ends of a doubleheader to the Colorado Rockies, 3-1 and 3-0, and scraping together just one run across 18 innings. The sweep dropped New York to 9-19 and stretched an already ugly tailspin, raising fresh doubts about whether the club’s big offseason reset has already gone sideways. Boos from a thinning crowd cut through the quiet in Queens as pressure mounted on manager Carlos Mendoza and the front office.
According to The Associated Press, New York has dropped 15 of its last 17 games and is tied for the worst record in baseball at 9-19. The same reporting notes the Mets have scored only 92 runs, the fewest in the majors, and carry a .625 OPS, numbers that make the lineup’s anemia hard to square with the club’s payroll and winter moves. Juan Soto urged patience, insisting it is "a matter of time" before things click, but the current spiral is giving fans little reason to relax.
Doubleheader sweep caps 15-loss slide
The Rockies finished off the rough day with a 3-0 win in the nightcap, as Colorado starter Chase Dollander fired seven scoreless innings and the Mets lineup never really threatened, according to the official MLB recap. Kodai Senga was knocked out after just 2 2/3 innings in the second game, and the two losses together left the Mets offense looking flat on its home field. It was Colorado’s first series sweep of the Mets in Queens since 2018, a punch that turned an early season slump into something that feels a lot more like a full blown crisis.
Senga's slide, roster moves and payroll questions
Senga’s shaky start has quickly become a front burner concern. He slipped to 0-4, and his early ERA has climbed as the rotation keeps shuffling, inviting questions about how the Mets can patch things in the short term. New York plans to designate Tommy Pham for assignment and has agreed to a major league contract with Austin Slater, a pair of people familiar with the decisions told The Associated Press. The fact that the club opened the season with one of baseball’s largest payrolls only sharpens scrutiny of the roster build and the choices coming out of the front office.
Local fallout and what fans are saying
Locally, the collapse has been tracked inning by inning, with Hoodline previously chronicling the homestand’s slide in its update on the Citi Field skid. In the stands and across social media, calls for accountability are getting louder, as fans and analysts argue over whether the fix is tactical, like shuffling the lineup or reworking bullpen roles, or structural, which would mean deeper changes to how this roster is put together. For a franchise that spent aggressively over the winter, the sudden plunge has raised immediate questions about timing, patience and what comes next.
The Mets do not have the luxury of a long reset. They will need sharper at bats and quick, decisive answers if this miserable April is not going to snowball into a lost season. Halting the skid, and deciding whether to shake up the roster or the staff, now looms as the central storyline for a team that opened 2026 talking about a championship and now finds itself staring at a serious crisis of confidence.
