Overview

• The Mets dropped their seventh straight game on August 10, blowing a five-run lead and falling 7-6 on Isaac Collins’s walk-off homer to sit 63-55 and 5½ games behind in the NL East.
• New York starters have gone 51 consecutive games without two pitchers each logging six innings, forcing high-leverage relievers like Taylor Rogers and Edwin Díaz into unsustainable workloads.
• The Yankees fell 7-1 to the Astros as Max Fried surrendered eight hits and four runs over five innings, marking the rotation’s 10th straight failure to reach the sixth inning.
• Manager Aaron Boone moved Giancarlo Stanton to right field, started Ben Rice at catcher and kept Aaron Judge at DH in a bid to ignite an offense that has produced just 20 runs in its last eight games.
• Both front offices have leaned on July deadline acquisitions and tactical tweaks without a clear turnaround, leaving their postseason hopes dependent on a crucial August stretch.