Entering Saturday afternoon’s game against the Nationals, the Mets were 0-65 when trailing after eight innings this season. For a moment, it appeared as if that streak would finally be coming to an end. But when the dust settled at the end of a chaotic contest — one featuring four errors, two foot-tapping hit-by-pitches, an inside-the-park home run, and a barely inside-the-zone final pitch — the Mets were left with a sixty-sixth loss that might just sting the strongest, falling 5-3 to the Nationals in eleven innings.

Saturday began as a sloppy showing on both sides of the ball. Less than twenty-four hours after breaking out for twelve runs, the Mets’ lineup stumbled out of the gate, stranding runners in scoring position in four of the first five innings against Cade Cavalli in his tenth m

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