Mets Announcer Gary Cohen Blames Manager Buck Showalter For The Team’s Horrific Loss Against Phillies
The New York Mets, who have the biggest payroll of any club in the league, have been arguably the most disappointing team in all of baseball this season, languishing below.500. Buck Showalter, the manager of the New York Mets, seems to be in hot water, and the team’s most recent defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday afternoon will not make matters any better.
Mets Announcer Gary Cohen Blames Manager Buck Showalter For The Team’s Horrific Loss
One of the biggest letdowns of the 2023 MLB season has been the New York Mets, and that narrative has only intensified in the wake of their humiliating loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
In case you missed it, New York lost the game 7-6 after giving up four runs on only one hit in the bottom of the eighth inning. That brutal inning included three walks, two hit batters and an ugly error.
Gary Cohen sums up the loss.
"The Mets 42nd loss of the year is their most horrific."
"Buck Showalter tried to stay away from his best relievers and the Mets paid the price." pic.twitter.com/qTYaYx8Bgr
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) June 25, 2023
Gary Cohen, the Mets’ announcer, made it clearly obvious on Sunday that not all losers are created equally.
“The Mets’ 42nd loss of the year is their most horrific,” Cohen said after their 7-6 loss, which included a uniquely brutal eighth-inning collapse.
“Buck Showalter tried to stay away from his best relievers, and the Mets paid the price.”
"Sometimes Jeff has a tough time getting out of his own way – he wants something so much. Jeff right now thinks he won't get another hit, and he'll probably get four tonight"
– Buck Showalter on Jeff McNeil pic.twitter.com/Yp4dvWTYAR
— SNY (@SNYtv) June 26, 2023
Cohen was alluding to Showalter’s use of the bullpen in the dreadful eighth inning, when closer David Robertson watched from the bullpen rather than the mound while Josh Walker and Jeff Brigham failed to perform.
New York #Mets need to keep:
Lindor, Alonso, McNeil, Nimmo, Diaz, Baty, Alvarez, Mauricio, Vientos, Senga.
Trade:
Scherzer, Verlander, Robertson, Ottovino, Marte, Narvaez, Pham, Canha, Vogelbach.
Fire Buck Showalter too.#LGM pic.twitter.com/ZMVssQPvcT
— James Nolan (@James1Nolan) June 25, 2023
The part that has Mets supporters the most up in arms is perhaps Cohen’s last remark regarding Showalter. David Robertson, a former All-Star reliever, had served as the Mets’ setup man for the majority of the season, but Showalter decided not to utilize him. Fans naturally expressed their annoyance on social media over this choice.
When Showalter was questioned about the eighth inning after the game, he didn’t exactly accept responsibility for his choice to not utilize his best relievers.
Buck Showalter was asked if he shares in the frustration of Mets fans: pic.twitter.com/gKdmGC6sV8
— SNY (@SNYtv) June 26, 2023
“What else can we do? I was hoping just like last night that we could’ve stretched every out we can with everybody we got. They are capable of doing the job, they just didn’t today.”
I don’t care what Steve Cohen said about not blowing things up. This Mets season has become an abhorrent, all time pathetic disaster
If Buck Showalter is the manager of the team still tomorrow morning, Cohen doesn’t care about winning pic.twitter.com/dihyM2oJ6U
— Pat Boyle (@PatBoyle44) June 26, 2023
After dropping to 35-42 on Sunday, the Mets are now 15 games behind the Atlanta Braves for fourth place in the NL East.
The Mets, who are now in fourth place and 15 games behind the division-leading Braves, were thought by some to win the NL East.
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