The Mets head into their weekend series against the Rockies on a modest two-game winning streak, with a chance to turn a rare bit of momentum into something bigger. New York is 9-16, Colorado 10-16, and the clubs meet after the Mets finally shook off a 12-game skid that had them searching for answers for nearly two weeks.
New York also arrives having won all six games against Colorado in 2025, a clean edge that gives the series an unmistakable tilt even before the first pitch. The Mets needed all of it, because this trip to stability has been slow. They did not win a series again until the Giants in early April, and since then every result has carried extra weight.
The turnaround this week started with a 5-3 loss on Tuesday night that pushed the Mets' losing streak to 12 games, the club's longest since 2002. Then came a 3-2 win on Wednesday to end it, followed by a 10-8 victory on Thursday after New York blew a 7-2 lead and still found a way back. That last game said as much about the Mets' season as any box score could: fragile, messy and, for the moment, still standing.
The biggest concern remains Francisco Lindor, who is expected to be out for the foreseeable future. Lindor said he hoped he would return before the All-Star break, and that matters because the Mets' shortstop had been productive before the injury, going 7-for-25 over the previous week. His absence leaves a club that is finally winning without one of its most reliable players to steady it.
Juan Soto, meanwhile, returned from a calf injury and played the final two games of the series, going 1-for-6 with three walks. The numbers were not loud, but his presence alone changed the shape of the lineup. For a team that spent much of the spring sinking, simply getting one star back while another waits to return has become part of the story.
The Rockies come in with a different kind of rhythm. They are 4-4 over their last eight games, a stretch that includes a split of four games against the Dodgers, one win against the Astros and two losses in three games against the Padres. That is not a dominant run, but it is enough to show a club playing with more life than its record suggests. Colorado also has one of the second- and third-worst records in the National League alongside the Mets, which is part of why this series feels less like a meeting of contenders than a test of who can stay upright.
Much of Colorado's offense has come from Mickey Moniak, who has emerged as a breakthrough player after earlier struggles with the Phillies and Angels. Moniak leads the Rockies with a 0.8 fWAR, a 182 wRC+, a 1.097 OPS and eight home runs in 19 games, while hitting.324/.347/.750 with 14 runs and 15 RBI. Hunter Goodman has also supplied power, ranking third on the team with a 128 wRC+ and second with six home runs.
For the Mets, the series is less about style points than proof that the worst stretch of the year is behind them. For Colorado, it is a chance to end a run of one-sided results against the same opponent. Either way, the first game will say more than the standings do, because both clubs are still trying to show that a short burst of wins can become something real.
Lou Brown once put it simply: win one, then another, and suddenly you have a streak. The Mets are not there yet. But after Tuesday's collapse, Wednesday's relief and Thursday's scramble, they at least have a live one.