Hopefully it does not get any worse than this — the Mets dropped a series at home to the worst team in baseball after losing again to the Padres Thursday night.
With the weather questionable, Rafael Montero got the start instead of Jacob deGrom. It made sense; why waste deGrom if it starts raining early in the game? Besides, Montero is a Triple-A pitcher, and the Padres are a Triple-A team. But it didn’t work out that way. Montero needed 45 pitches to get out of the first inning, an inning in which the Padres scored two runs.