On Beatles night at Citi Field, the Mets took a long and winding road to defeat.
Another bullpen meltdown keyed Friday night’s 11-9 loss to the Seattle Mariners , spoiling a game in which the Mets overcame three different deficits and got two home runs from Francisco Lindor.
The Mariners tagged high-leverage relievers Tyler Rogers, Ryan Helsely and Brooks Raley for six runs, including five in the seventh inning, as the Mets (64-58) suffered their 14th loss in the last 16 games.
Lindor and Juan Soto’s back-to-back home runs in the fourth gave the Mets a 6-4 advantage, and that remained the score going into the sixth.
But it all submarined from there.
No. 9 hitter Cole Young made it a one-run game with a sixth-inning RBI single off of Rogers.
In the seventh, Helsley surrendered a l