Freddy's nightmares continue as Mets drown in Beer Town

Brewers 8 Mets 3 (American Family Field, Milwaukee, WI)

Mets record: 42-59

Mets streak: Lost 1

WP - Craig Yoho (2-0)

LP - Freddy Peralta (5-9)

Seat on the Korner: Cooper Pratt

We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets.

Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Main Event Restaurant & Sports Bar.

With locations in Plainview and Farmingdale, The Main Event features 80+ HD TVs, fresh daily seafood, and Black Angus certified steaks—so you never have to choose between great food and the big game.

The Brewers talented rookie hit his first career home run tonight off Freddy Peralta to make it 3-0. He finished up 3-for-4 and was a large part of the consortium of Brewers who led the charge against their former teammate Freddy Peralta.

Need to Know

• The Mets are now 4-17 in their last 21 regular season games against the Brewers.

• Freddy Peralta, in his return to Milwaukee, went 5 and 1/3 innings and gave up 7 runs on 8 hits and 2 walks while striking out six. Peralta threw 107 pitches (65 of them for strikes), and his ERA sits at 5.01 for the season.

• Peralta has a 6.56 ERA and a WHIP of 1.66 in his last 12 starts while pitching an average of 5.06 innings. Opponents are hitting .292 against him in that stretch.

• Xzavion Curry came in for Peralta in the 6th and immediately gave up a three-run homer to Luis Ortiz to put the game in the dumpster. But Curry gave up nothing since and gave up a run on two hits in 2 and 2/3's.

• Luis Robert Jr. was activated before tonight's game after missing 73 games with a back injury. He went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. Mets hitters as a whole struck out 15 times.

• Jacob Misorowski was pulled after four innings, giving up a run on four hits and a walk while striking out six.

• Craig Yoho got the win in relief while Lance McCullers Jr. made his Brewers debut and threw three innings in relief, giving up two useless runs in the 8th.

• The Mets went homerless in their first road game in the last 14.

• The Brewers now have the best record in baseball at 63-37.

Turning Point

It turned when the Mets plane landed in Milwaukee. But I don't have video of that so let's go with Brice Turang's RBI double to make it 1-0.

It seems snarky to go this route, but the Mets have had too many of these games in which they fail in a straight line.

Three Keys

Worst Audition Ever

If this was Freddy Peralta's "audition" for potential trade suitors, well ... let's just say that Aubrey Plaza had a better audition for Saturday Night Live.

A lot has been made about Peralta's pitch mix lately. He has been going back and forth between throwing more off-speed stuff and more fastballs. But none of it matters if his location is in the area of "meatball". That was the issue tonight. Too many pitches which caught too much of the plate. They could be fastballs, screwballs, ghost gyros ... doesn't matter.

Peralta even said himself that he doesn't understand, because the stuff is there. But when the location doesn't match the stuff, you get what happened tonight.

But at least he got a standing ovation when he came out of the game from Brewers fans. If I rooted for any team facing him this season, I'd do the same.

Stumbling Out of the Blocks

This goes back to the turning point being the first run of the game. There have been too many games this season where the Mets give up tons of runs early and the whole vibe of the game becomes a spring training outing. That's what tonight was.

In the first three innings of games this season, Mets pitching has a 5.16 ERA and hitters have an OPS of .768 off them ... easily the worst numbers than innings 4-6 or 7-9. Combine that with Mets hitters having a .670 OPS in the first three innings, many games are lost before they even begin.

Hit 'Em Up (Or Just Hit Something)

There's an old 2Pac diss track where he stops in the middle and spits: "I don't know why I'm on this track. Y'all ain't even on my level. I'ma let my lil' homeys ride on you." (Paraphrased for language.) That's what this game felt like after Jacob Misorowski left and the Mets spent three innings flailing against Craig Yoho and Lance McCullers Jr.

They got two runs off McCullers in the 8th, but all of New York had long since switched over to an America's Funniest Home Videos marathon by then. Grab your glocks when you see Craig Yoho ... I guess.