PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Summer arrived during this road trip, but right now the Mets could use plenty of spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After snapping a seven-game losing streak the previous night, manager Carlos Mendoza\u2019s crew reverted to listless form in Sunday\u2019s series rubber game against the Phillies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even usually reliable David Peterson was a mess in getting knocked out after four innings in the Mets\u2019 7-1 loss at Citizens Bank Park that completed their brutal trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a fourth inning from hell, Peterson surrendered two long home runs and buried the Mets in a five-run hole, forcing his team into trying to play catch up against lefty Jes\u00fas Luzardo. <\/p>\n
But the cavalry, which blasted seven solo homers Saturday, was nowhere to be found.\u00a0<\/p>\n
David Peterson reacts during the Mets-Phillies game on June 22, 2025. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Francisco Lindor homered in the eighth for the Mets\u2019 only run. <\/p>\n
The Mets had won the previous 28 games in which Lindor had homered, one short of the MLB record.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mets went 1-5 against the Braves and Phillies on the trip. <\/p>\n
Edmundo Sosa (No. 33) celebrates after hitting a homer during the Phillies-Mets game on June 22, 2025. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Their reward is a return to Queens for a rematch against the Braves, who swept them last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his worst start of the season, Peterson allowed five earned runs on six hits and three walks over four innings with four strikeouts. <\/p>\n
The start was not only Peterson\u2019s shortest, but his runs allowed were a season high.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It completed a turn through the rotation in which Mets starters pitched to a 6.55 ERA. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s also not the same rotation that carried the Mets for the first 2 \u00bd months of the season, as Kodai Senga and Tylor Megill sit on the injured list.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Peterson got jumped for five runs in the fourth, when he faced 10 batters, burying the Mets in a 5-0 hole. <\/p>\n
Kyle Schwarber hits a home run during the Phillies-Mets game on June 22, 2025. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Kyle Schwarber launched a homer to center leading off the inning and Otto Kemp\u2019s RBI single after Nick Castellanos had doubled and J.T. Realmuto walked gave the Phillies a 2-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Edmundo Sosa crushed a slider for a three-run homer. <\/p>\n
It marked the first time Peterson surrendered multiple homers in a game since his first start of the season, on March 31 in Miami. <\/p>\n
Juan Soto reacts during the Mets-Phillies game on June 22, 2025. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
He had allowed only four this season before Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Phillies extended the inning with Johan Rojas\u2019 two-out walk and Trea Turner\u2019s single before Peterson retired Schwarber to end the frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luzardo muzzled the Mets, who had their best chance against him in the fourth when Juan Soto walked and Brandon Nimmo singled with two outs. <\/p>\n
Luzardo escaped by retiring Luis Torrens. <\/p>\n
Luzardo allowed only three hits over 6 \u00b2\/\u2083 scoreless innings and struck out seven with one walk.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tyler Zuber entered for the seventh in his Mets debut and surrendered two runs on three hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Summer arrived during this road trip, but right now the Mets could use plenty of spring.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,8336,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,2083,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-6948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-david-peterson","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114730496455815145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}