Disaster strikes for Jonah Tong and the Mets as losing streak grows to seven

The Mets dropped their seventh straight game, losing to Jacob deGrom and the Rangers 8-3 in deGrom’s first game against his former team. With the stakes increasing with each consecutive loss, the pressure was on for Jonah Tong, but this game was more or less over before Jacob deGrom even took the mound.

The top of the first inning was like something out of a nightmare for Jonah Tong and the Mets. He walked two of the first three batters he faced, but then retired Jake Burger on a fly out to center. It seemed like there was a way out of the inning for Tong, but Josh Jung dunked a single into right to plate the game’s first run and things completely unraveled from there. A single, another walk, and a double later, the Rangers were up six runs. Carlos Mendoza let Tong throw 40 pitches before