2B Marcus Semien after Mets 10th straight loss: 'This is the big boy league, no time to dwell on it'
Mets manager Carlos Mendoza, starter Freddy Peralta and 2B Marcus Semien continue to insist that despite dropping their 10th game in a row on Saturday, they are going to keep grinding and get back in the win column. Mendoza knows "we have to dig ourselves out of the hole we made for ourselves." Semien, in his 13th season, has seen just about every streak good and bad but the only way for the team to change its fortunes is "come back out tomorrow ready to go."
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I know you've talked about how you can't let your thoughts turn negative, but does something become psychological when the losses mount at this level right now?
I mean, you can make a case.
you know, when, when, especially when you're going through a stretch like this, it's hard.
It's hard.
But, nobody's gonna feel sorry for us.
You know, and you, you gotta keep going.
You know, we got we haven't been playing good baseball.
That's, that's the bottom line.
but when you look at it, and you got five and a half months ahead of you, that we have an opportunity to, write our own story.
you know, we're putting ourse-ourself on a, on a big hole right now, but, you know, there's only one way to do it, and it's just come back tomorrow, ready to go.
As someone who's been in the league a while, you know the ups and downs, but just how difficult from a competitor's standpoint is, is what you guys are going through right now?
I think the only thing that I can say about that is just we need to keep grinding and keep competing and trying to, to get better and win, and win some games.
That's it.
How difficult can that be to do, as the losses pile up, to keep that proper mindset?
You know, I think, yeah, we just gotta keep preparing.
I don't know how difficult is, it is, but we are professional, and we have to make adjustments and, and play better and, you know, and try to win, like I said.
Do you feel any extra pressure today on yourself to maybe go out there and try to end this streak for everybody?
No.
No pressure, but, you know, I have a commitment and, with myself and everybody else, and just trying to give my best, as always, and I feel that I was competing until, until the last pitch.
You know, who knows how it is?
And sometimes we can't, we can't control some stuff that happens in the game.
Put into perspective here what's happened over the last ten days to two weeks.
Yeah, it's frustrating to lose baseball games anytime you lose.
So when you lose this many in a row, it, it definitely compounds, but this is a big boy league.
You know, there's no, there's no time to dwell on tonight.
Tomorrow is a new day.
What is the mental challenge of actually putting that into practice, though?
Like, one thing to understand that, but how challenging is it when the losses mount?
It's not.
It's not.
You know, it's as simple as showing up tomorrow with a good attitude.
You know, that's, that's how I'm gonna approach it.
as a veteran on this team, hopefully, you know, other guys see, you know, the smile on my face when I show up, and You know, I understand that the game does not owe you a thing.
The game does not owe you any wins.
You know, so we have to go out and get it.
Is there anything you can put your finger on as to why it hasn't happened so far?
Every game's been different.
You know, I think, obviously we wanna play better as an offense.
We've given up some big homers that have, have, have kinda hurt us, but we've lost a lot of different ways.
So, you know, there's no pointing the finger at anything right now.
It's just a matter of us, you know, coming out with a big win.
If it takes a twelve to ten victory, if it takes a one-zero victory, we have to do something to, to get in the, the W column.
