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The New York Mets are no longer dealing with an early-season stumble. They are staring at the kind of collapse that forces an organization to decide whether patience has become negligence.

After getting swept by the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field, including both ends of Sunday’s doubleheader, the Mets are 9-19, 10 games under .500, and drifting dangerously close to a season-defining breaking point before the calendar even reaches May.

That is not supposed to happen to the team with the highest payroll in baseball. It is especially not supposed to happen against Colorado, a franchise that swept the Mets for the first time since 2018 and entered the weekend as exactly the type of opponent New York needed to stabilize itself against.

Instead, the Mets made the Rockies look organized, confident, and opportunistic. New York looked lifeless.

The Mets’ Offense Has Become Impossible to Defend

GettyLuis Robert Jr. #88 of the New York Mets walks back to the dugout after striking out during the eighth inning of game one of a doubleheader against the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field on April 26, 2026 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Heather Khalifa/Getty Images)

The numbers from Sunday were brutal enough on their own. Across 18 innings, the Mets managed 10 hits, one run, and 17 strikeouts. They were shut out for the fifth time this season in the nightcap, a 3-0 loss in which Chase Dollander held them to five hits over seven innings.

That should be the loudest alarm inside the organization.

Dollander has talent, but the Mets were not beaten by an established ace at the height of his powers. They were shut down by a pitcher making his first start of the season, one who entered with a career ERA above five and had been working mostly in bulk relief.

That is where the problem becomes bigger than one bad game.

In 14 of their first 28 games, the Mets have scored two runs or fewer. That is not a cold stretch. That is an identity crisis. This is a roster built around expensive talent, veteran bats, and star power, yet it continues to produce empty innings, stranded runners, and boos from a crowd that has already seen enough.

The first game of the doubleheader offered the same warning. The Mets loaded the bases twice and came away with nothing. Tyrone Taylor’s solo homer was the entire offense in a 3-1 loss. In the second game, Carson Benge had two hits, but the lineup around him failed to turn traffic into pressure.

That is how losing streaks become something worse.

Senga’s Collapse Makes the Crisis Feel Bigger

GettyPitcher Kodai Senga #34 of the New York Mets throws during the first inning of game two of a doubleheader against the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field on April 26, 2026 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Heather Khalifa/Getty Images)

Kodai Senga was supposed to be part of the solution. Instead, his season has become another symbol of how far the Mets have fallen.

Senga lasted just 2.2 innings in the second game, allowing three runs, three hits, and three walks. Hunter Goodman’s two-run homer was the blow that effectively ended the night early. Senga’s ERA is now 9.00, and he has not completed more than four innings since April 5.

That matters because the Mets do not have enough margin to survive this version of him.

The bullpen actually gave New York a chance. Carl Edwards Jr. delivered 3.1 hitless innings in his Mets debut. Devin Williams, after a rough stretch, threw a scoreless ninth with two strikeouts. Those are positives, but they barely register when the rotation creates an early hole and the offense never answers.

At some point, isolated bright spots stop being encouraging. They become reminders that the larger structure is broken.

Is It Time for the Mets to Fire Everyone?

GettyCenter fielder Tyrone Taylor #28 of the New York Mets lets the ball take a bounce during the seventh inning of game two of a doubleheader against the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field on April 26, 2026 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Heather Khalifa/Getty Images)

That is the uncomfortable question now, especially after watching the Boston Red Sox choose chaos over complacency by cleaning house.

The Mets do not have to make the exact same move tomorrow. But they do have to start acting like a team that understands the urgency of this moment. A 9-19 record, four series sweeps, a 15-loss-in-17-games spiral, and a 47-74 mark dating back to mid-June last year is no longer a small sample.

That is a trend.

Carlos Mendoza will take the heat because managers always do when expensive teams play this poorly. But this cannot stop with the manager. The front office built a top-heavy roster that looks disconnected. The coaching staff has not fixed the offense. The pitching infrastructure has not stabilized Senga. The roster construction has left the Mets relying on names rather than results.

Firing everyone may sound extreme. Ignoring this much failure would be worse.

The Mets do not just need a spark. They need accountability. Whether that starts with Mendoza, the hitting staff, the pitching staff, or a larger front-office reckoning, something has to change before this season becomes another expensive embarrassment in Queens.