Starling Marte thrown out at plate for final out as Mets lose crusher to Brewers

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets.MILWAUKEE — Starling Marte’s legs churned toward home plate with the tying run in Friday’s ninth inning, but perfection got in his way.There was a perfect throw from Blake Perkins and an equally impressive swipe tag by William Contreras.

Marte was out.Game over.The Mets losing streak was still alive.“A tremendous throw on one bounce, so you have to give him credit over there,” Marte said through an interpreter after the 3-2 loss to the Brewers at American Family Field.It was the fifth straight Mets defeat and ninth in 10 games.The anemic Mets lineup slumbered from the third inning until the ninth.

Marte delivered a two-out double against Trevor Megill in the ninth, and Jeff McNeil’s ensuing single screamed “tie game,” but the throw by Perkins from center dashed those hopes.“I don’t think I could have done anything differently,” Marte said.“I ran the bases well.

My sprint speed was up in a situation like that, but at the end of the day, there isn’t much you can do.”The Mets managed just five hits only hours after president of baseball operations David Stearns expressed confidence the team would emerge from its latest offensive drought.Stearns also indicated hitting coaches Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes weren’t the problem.For a third straight game, the Mets were held to two runs or fewer.

They have totaled six hits in their past two games combined.“Overall, in those middle innings, we had a hard time creating traffic,” manager Carlos Mendoza said.Brandon Woodruff inflicted most of the misery on this night by allowing two runs (on early homers by Juan Soto and Marte) on three hits over seven innings with eight strikeouts and two walks.The Brewers, who own MLB’s best record at 71-44, won their seventh straight.In his fourth straight uninspiring start, Kodai Senga lasted just 4 ¹/₃ innings a...