The New York Mets were welcomed home after a long, strenuous road trip with cold weather and a half-empty Citi Field on Tuesday.

And for their sake, including owner Steve Cohen, they might have gotten lucky that the ballpark wasn’t anywhere near capacity.

At first, though, it looked as if the Mets were going to get the monkey off their back following 11 consecutive losses.

Team leader Francisco Lindor sent a moon shot into the stands to put the Mets up 3-0 early, and it felt as if everything was going their way into the deeper innings.

But right when one thing went wrong for New York, everything unraveled.

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The Minnesota Twins tied the game in the 7th inning before the new Mets closer, Devin Williams, signed in the offseason, put the dagger in his own fanbase’s heart.

Williams struggled in New York last season with the Yankees, and though he believed a new start across town with the Mets would change his fortunes, it might have only gotten worse in Queens.

The Mets closer faced five batters and recorded zero outs before leaving to a chorus of boos with the team, which went down 5-3.

In the bottom of the ninth, the Mets’ offense did nothing to change things around, and the fans continued their jeers as the second-most expensive roster in MLB dropped their 12th straight game.

Over 1,000 people responded to the team’s official social media post announcing the final score.

The reviews weren’t kind to the Mets, their players, their coaches, and especially their ownership.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Tuesday he’s “never been intoxicated on the job,” following a report published in The Atlantic last week that alleged he has had “bouts of excessive drinking” and job performance issues.

Asked about the article during an unrelated press conference on Tuesday, Patel railed against negative media coverage.

“I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia and as when they get louder, it just means I’m doing my job,” Patel said.

He added, “I’ve never been intoxicated on the job, and that is why we filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit. And any one of you that wants to participate, bring it on.”

On Monday, Patel followed through on a promise to sue The Atlantic over the article, demanding $250 million in damages.

The April 17 Atlantic article alleged drinking has led to multiple unexplained absences by Patel and concern across the government.

Speaking at the same press conference on Tuesday, acting Attorney Todd Blanche said he hadn’t read the article but also sought to dispute several details from it, saying it was based on anonymous sources and that certain parts of the article were “blatantly false.”

Responding to video from February when Patel was seen chugging a beer with members of the U.S. gold medal hockey team following their Olympic victory, Patel said: “I’m like an everyday American who loves his country, loves the sport of hockey, and champions my friends, when they raise a gold medal and invite me in to celebrate.”

The Atlantic said it stands by its reporting.

“We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit,” the Atlantic said in a statement.

In a statement to ABC News earlier this week, Patel said the story “is a lie.”

“They were given the truth before they published, and they chose to print falsehoods anyway,” Patel said in the statement. “I took this job to protect the American people and this FBI has delivered the most prolific reduction in crime in US history. Fake news won’t report it, and their toxicity will never erode nor stop our Mission.”