Mets’ loss to Cubs is first of its kind in MLB history

The New York Mets’ season from hell continues, and they’re on a fast track to irrelevance during the 2026 season as their losses keep on piling up at the halfway mark of the campaign. On Thursday, the Chicago Cubs completed the four-game series sweep over the Mets with a 4-3 victory — with New York somehow losing the game despite doing everything right, at least in some aspects of the ball.

One glance at the performance of the Mets pitching staff would suggest that New York took care of business rather easily against Chicago. They only allowed six hits against the Cubs and walked two batters while striking out a total of 12 hitters as a unit. But in an abject embarrassment of a defensive performance, the Mets gifted a few runs to Chicago, including three in that disastrous sixth inning.

In so doing, the Mets became the first team in MLB history to strike out over 10 batters, allow no earned runs, and hit two home runs in a single game but fail to claim the win, as per OptaSTATS on X.

The Mets’ horrid fielding night proved to be their undoing. New York allowed Dansby Swanson to reach base via an error from Ronny Mauricio to lead off the sixth, and they were punished not too long after that, with familiar face Michael Conforto driving in Swanson for the Cubs’ first “unearned” run.

Carson Benge then compounded matters with two outs in the inning, as he failed to field a hit from Alex Bregman cleanly. The scoring decision was that Conforto scored due to the error (and Bregman reached third as a result). This was the second unearned run the Mets allowed. And when Bregman scored after Ian Happ singled on the very next at-bat, the damage was done for the Mets.

These are the mistakes that simply cannot happen for the Mets, not when the team is already fighting an uphill climb this season.

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