NEW YORK -- New York Mets manager Terry Collins had a message for his players after Fridays 6-1 loss to the Colorado Rockies: Lighten up.After the Mets lost their third straight game, Collins held a rare meeting and implored his players to stop putting so much pressure on themselves.He even ordered music to be played in the clubhouse, which is generally taboo after losses. When reporters entered the clubhouse postgame, Bon Jovis You Give Love a Bad Name was blaring over speakers.The Mets (53-49) went hitless in eight at-bats with runners in scoring position Friday, dropping their season average in those situations to an MLB-worst .202. Pending the outcome of Washingtons game at San Francisco, the Mets have dropped a season-high-matching seven games out of first place in the National League East and two games out of a wild-card spot.First of all, we have a good team, Collins said. Were going through a rough time right now. We havent hit with runners in scoring position. Everybody knows it. Weve got to quit rubbing it in our faces every day. Weve got to lighten it up a little bit. Weve still got a lot of games to play. Were not dead. Were still in the hunt. We need to loosen up a little bit all the way around. ... Im a little tired of seeing long faces. We need to lighten it up, have some fun and get back to the way we can play the game.These players, theyre smart guys. Theyre getting it from their friends, everybody else -- You guys arent hitting with runners in scoring position. And so it starts to build and starts to build, and all of a sudden, they go up there, and their heads are not where it needs to be because theyre worried about making an out or not getting a hit.Collins implored the Mets to focus on the positives despite mounting injuries. Center fielder Juan Lagares landed on the disabled list Friday afternoon with a partial tear of a ligament in his left thumb. He will require surgery that will sideline him for six weeks. Third baseman Jose Reyes has been out since Tuesday with an intercostal muscle strain on his left side.We put Juan on the DL today. We dont know about Jose; he may have to go on, Collins said. So I just think a lot of these things pile up. I just said, We need to lighten it up around here. Weve still got good players. Weve still got good pitching. Were, what, fourth or fifth in the league in pitching? Or third in the league in pitching? Weve just got to quit worrying about all the bad things and start thinking about some of the good things and get ourselves ready for tomorrow night.Said second baseman Neil Walker: This is not the time of year to panic. The outside expectation is that we have to win every series. This is tough baseball. Ive played in a wild-card race for the last three years (with the Pittsburgh Pirates), and weve gone through these exact same things in July and August. So the thing that you cant do is panic. You cant get too out of control. You cant get down too much. 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