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At long last, the Mets received a solid start. The offense gave the supposed lockdown bullpen a lead.

It didn’t matter. Whatever can go wrong for this team will go wrong.

Kodai Senga and Francisco Lindor did their jobs.

Ryan Helsley, one of the big arms the Mets acquired at the trade deadline, did not.

He was torched for two runs in the eighth inning of yet another brutal Mets loss to the Braves, a 4-3 setback that makes it 13 losses in 15 games for Carlos Mendoza’s beaten-down team.

Helsley was booed off the mound after allowing run-scoring doubles to Michael Harris and Ozzie Albies.

The Mets ha

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