{"id":72142,"date":"2026-04-19T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/this-feeling-sucks-381m-mets-with-second-highest-payroll-in-mlb-lose-11th-game-in-a-row\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:55:41","slug":"this-feeling-sucks-381m-mets-with-second-highest-payroll-in-mlb-lose-11th-game-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/this-feeling-sucks-381m-mets-with-second-highest-payroll-in-mlb-lose-11th-game-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This feeling sucks\u2019: $381m Mets, with second-highest payroll in MLB, lose 11th game in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>New York had 1-0 lead in ninth before losing 2-1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mets swept for a third series in a row<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The New York Mets are finding that money doesn\u2019t necessarily bring happiness. The second-most expensive team in MLB \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/mlb\/tax\">with a payroll of $381m<\/a> \u2013 lost their 11th game in a row on Sunday as they were swept for a third straight series, this time by the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEleven losses, that\u2019s a lot, whether it\u2019s in April or at any point in the season,\u201d Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said after the game. \u201cNobody\u2019s going to feel sorry for us. We\u2019ve got to find a way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/19\/mets-lose-11th-game-in-a-row-baseball\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York had 1-0 lead in ninth before losing 2-1 Mets swept for a third series in a row The New York Mets are finding that money doesn\u2019t necessarily bring happiness. The second-most expensive team in MLB \u2013 with a payroll of $381m \u2013 lost their 11th game in a row on Sunday as they &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018This feeling sucks\u2019: $381m Mets, with second-highest payroll in MLB, lose 11th game in a row\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/this-feeling-sucks-381m-mets-with-second-highest-payroll-in-mlb-lose-11th-game-in-a-row\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018This feeling sucks\u2019: $381m Mets, with second-highest payroll in MLB, lose 11th game in a row\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}