Mets close road trip 5-4 after another poor offensive showing: 'We're better than that'

Things were looking a bit better for the struggling Mets.

Despite falling to the Rockies on a late-inning grand slam on Thursday afternoon, they showed some positives and took the first two series of their nine-game road trip.

This weekend in Arizona, though, all of that was quickly erased.

The Mets were able to salvage the series opener on Friday night thanks to Mark Vientos and some late-inning heroics, but otherwise the shorthanded offense wasted more strong pitching.

Clay Holmes followed that by put together 5.2 innings of two-run ball on Saturday, only to be handed his second loss of the season as the bats managed just a run on three hits.

Despite facing struggling right-hander Merrill Kelly, who came into the night with a 9.95 ERA on the season, they didn’t record a baserunner after the top of the fifth.

That stretch would carry into the fourth inning on Sunday afternoon, as 22 consecutive Mets were set down in order before Juan Soto drew a leadoff walk, which tied their season-high drought.

While the perfect game was broken up, Arizona southpaw Eduardo Rodriguez kept his no-hit bid intact until Carson Benge laced a single with one out in the top of the sixth.

Luis Torrens followed that with a double to breakup the shutout as well, but the D-backs answered back with three unearned runs in the bottom-half to put this one away for good.