Homer-Hitting Mets Can Blast, but Fail to Bloop

It is one of baseball’s fun little expressions, a dugout rallying cry that makes a breakthrough seem plausible, especially for a team like the Mets:

Bloop and a blast.

Any hitter can luck into a bloop single. Any slugger can drive a mistake to the seats. The Mets seem incapable of doing much offensively, but they do take big swings.

“We’re a bloop and a blast away, in the last 10 games, of winning every game,” Manager Terry Collins said before batting practice Sunday. “We have the kind of team that can do that. When our guys get in the batter’s box, we’ve got a chance to hit a homer. Now, the weather has not been conducive; we’ve hit some balls that have gone nowhere. But you still feel like…