WASTED LAND SORRY METS SQUANDER ANOTHER DEGROM GEM
ATLANTA — Jacob deGrom showed up to play Wednesday, as could be expected. The rest of his Mets teammates might as well have traveled ahead to Arizona.
But at least they didn’t get no-hit.
The rest of the day went downhill from there for the Mets, who wasted another dominant performance from deGrom in a 2-0 loss to the Braves at SunTrust Park.
“I told [deGrom] after the game: ‘Dude, I’m sorry,’ ” Todd Frazier said. “I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know why we’re not producing for him.”
The Mets aren’t producing for any pitcher: In losing 10 of 11 games, they have scored two runs or fewer nine times, as their top left-handed threats continue to struggle and Yoenis Cespedes sits on the disabled list with a sore hip flexor.
Mike Soroka kept the Mets hitless into the seventh inning before Michael Conforto reached on an infield single to break up the no-no. The righty Soroka lasted 6 ¹/3 innings, in which he struck out four and walked one, with one hit allowed.
The Mets didn’t get their second hit until the ninth, when Brandon Nimmo stroked a two-out double to put runners on second and third against Arodys Vizcaino, but Jay Bruce was retired to end the game.
“They are out there trying to score runs so bad that I think maybe that is affecting them,” manager Mickey Callaway said.
DeGrom was removed after 86 pitches over seven innings, in which he allowed one earned run on seven hits with seven strikeouts. The Mets ace, whose ERA dropped from 1.57 to 1.55, has allowed one run or fewer in nine of his past 10 starts. But the Mets are 2-8 in those games.
Callaway decided it was best to remove deGrom after seven given the number of “stressful” innings the right-hander has thrown in recent outings.
“I think it was just being smart and not trying to do too much,” deGrom said.
If deGrom is frustrated with the lack of offensive support he has received, he won’t show it.
“Nobody is happy that we’re losing,” he said. “You have got to score runs to win, and we haven’t been doing that, so no- body is happy with what’s going on.”
Freddie Freeman smashed a solo homer in the eighth off Jerry Blevins to give the Braves their final run.
DeGrom retired the first 10 batters he faced before the Braves dented him for a run on Freeman’s RBI single in the fourth. Dansby Swanson’s double with one out in the inning ignited the rally. After Freeman’s single, the Braves got runners to first-and third, but deGrom struck out Charlie Culberson to end the threat.
“We talk about trying too hard,” Frazier said. “Maybe we try too hard when he’s pitching, but a guy throws like that, he works fast, he was just dominant. Of course he is going to give up one run and everybody is human so, for us not to put up any runs for him again, I told him, ‘I’m sorry.’ I didn’t know what else to tell him.”
After Conforto reached second base on a wild pitch in the seventh, lefty A.J. Minter entered and struck out Nimmo, before Bruce was retired, ending the threat.
The Mets were hopeful that a victory Sunday over the Yankees in the Subway Series finale would catapult them to further success, but that has not occurred.
“It’s a little frustrating it didn’t springboard us and get us kinda where we want to start going,” Callaway said. “But we have got a big series against Arizona coming up.” mpuma@nypost.com