The Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets play the second game of a 3-game series Wednesday at Citi Field in Queens.

Juan Soto is one of the best hitters in the game of baseball and is still young. However, a New York radio host isn't buying he is as young as he says he is.

The Mets have lost 13 of their last 15 games and their lead over the idle Cincinnati Reds in the race for the final wild-card spot shrunk to a half-game. Francisco Lindor hit a third-inning solo homer and Brandon Nimmo (sacrifice fly) and Pete Alonso (single) had back-to-back RBIs to give the Mets a 3-2 lead in the sixth.

Carlos Mendoza did not hold back on the Mets' recent struggles after the series-ending loss to the Braves on Thursday night.

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Michael Harris II hit a grand slam to cap Atlanta’s biggest inning in almost five years — a nine-run outburst in the fourth that propelled the Braves to an 11-6 comeback win over the slumping New York Mets.

Juan Soto's first season with the New York Mets has been an adventure. The Mets season has also been a bit of a rollercoaster ride. After Soto, 26, signed his

Francisco Lindor homered and collected three hits, and Kodai Senga delivered a strong start, but another late-game collapse by the bullpen doomed the New York Mets in a 4-3 series-deciding loss to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night at Citi Field.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/mets as New York Mets land on wrong side of franchise history. In what was undoubtedly the New York Mets ' worst loss of the season, the ballclub also made some unwanted franchise history in the process.