New York Daily News

METS GAMEDAY

- BY KRISTIE ACKERT

So, this is really rock bottom.

A month after Mets’ manager Mickey Callaway suggested his team had bottomed out, they officially did Saturday.

The Marlins rallied for three runs in the seventh and beat Mets ace Jacob deGrom, 5-2, at Marlins Park.

The loss dropped the Mets (32-48) into a tie with the Marlins (34-50) for last place in the National League East, giving them the worst winning percentage (.400) in the NL.

The Marlins will look to move into fourth-place, dropping the Mets to the division cellar by themselves, in Sunday’s series finale.

The Mets have lost three straight and finish the month of June 5-21, the worst record for that month in team history. They dropped a season-worst 16 games below .500.

“It’s hard for me to speak for everybody. I’m definitely frustrated, frustrated with how the night went,” deGrom said. “I’m tired of losing to be honest.”

What made it so much worse is that they did it on the day their best pitcher took the mound.

DeGrom went into the game with the best ERA in the majors but with just five wins because of a lack of run support, bullpen collapses and defensive lapses.

The ace, who missed his regularly scheduled start on Friday because of a “family issue,” seemed to run out of gas in the sixth. DeGrom gave up three earned runs on six hits.

After striking out four in a row, he gave up a two-run home run to Brian Anderson. He issued a two-out walk to Justin Bour and a single to Starlin Castro, moving Bour to third, where he scored on yet another Mets defensive lapse.

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