CHICAGO — The Mets’ best reliever this season wilted in a crucial spot Sunday, flushing the Mets’ dreams of a rare road-series victory along with it.
Seth Lugo watched Javier Baez blast a slider into the right-field bleachers in the eighth inning at Wrigley Field, undoing Jacob deGrom’s fine afternoon of work (albeit one that probably needed to be an inning longer) on Pete Alonso’s record-setting day.
It ended as a maddening 5-3 loss to the Cubs, snapping the Mets’ two-game winning streak and giving them a split in the series. The Mets have not won a road series since sweeping the Marlins three games in the first week of April.