With 13 games left in the regular season, the Mets are playing their worst baseball and are currently out of a playoff spot.

The Mets blew a 2-0 lead in a 3-2 loss to the Rangers, their eighth straight defeat, with Carlos Mendoza admitting frustration amid the skid.

The Mets were swept on their home field by the Phillies, cutting their lead to just 3.5 games and kicking off a stretch in which they lost 12 of 17 to end the regular season. This included losing two series against the lowly Washington Nationals and dropping two out of three against the Marlins to put the nail in their coffin.

"We want to be in the playoffs and we're not playing playoff baseball right now." The Mets' woes extend well beyond these past seven games. They were in first place in the NL East as recently as August 2,

The New York Mets made the wrong kind of MLB history Thursday, losing in a way not seen before in the modern era.

Jacob deGrom received a six-run lead before throwing a pitch in his return to Citi Field, and the Texas Rangers beat the Mets 8-3 to give New York its third seven-game losing streak this year.

New York also holds the final NL Wild Card spot by only two games over both the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds and if they are unable to break out of their slump, they could fall outside of the playoff picture.

Things are continuing to fall apart for the New York Mets. On a day that saw Brandon Sproat toss a gem in his Citi Field debut, the Mets blew a late 2-0 lead an