The Mets offense has just four runs on 15 hits in their 19 innings played so far, but manager Luis Rojas still has plenty of confidence in the offense.
"I'm pretty confident about our offense," said Rojas. "These guys, I mean, we have depth in our lineup, and we have guys that can come in from the bench and give you good at bats. We feel pretty good about it."
Rojas mentioned that offensive starts differ from player to player.
"[Yoenis] Cespedes, it took him a couple at bats, and then he hit the homer. Took him a couple at bats, and then he hit a single. The at bats go and guys are gonna get into the rhythm," Rojas said. "Some guys are gonna just out of their shoes just start swinging the bat well, which was [Brandon] Nimmo's case in game one."
Despite the Mets playing just their third game on Sunday night, the team will enter its rubber game against the Atlanta Braves with a third different leadoff hitter, and a different looking lineup from one through nine.
Surely, lineups are based on the arm and hot hitters. And that seems to be the plan for Rojas.
"We'll [change the lineup] sometimes. It won't be different from 60 games versus 162. We'll do it because we're going after today's game," said Rojas. "This is one game at a time. Today is our game, the main focus is this one. And that's why we think some guys are in a position there where they can connect with each other ... against a particular starting pitcher that we're going to face."
But for an offense that had the seventh-best OPS in baseball in the second half last year, Rojas sees no reason to be worried.
"Things are gonna start connecting," said Rojas. "These guys, they've shown before that they can hit and we feel the same right now."