The Mets have 17 games left in the regular season and, at this point, it seems more likely they’ll be playing out the string than making a push toward the playoffs — especially after getting manhandled by the Orioles in an 11-2 loss on Tuesday night in Queens.

Afterward, Jake Marisnick said, “This team is too good to not make the playoffs.”

The standings say otherwise, as they dropped to 19-24 and four games behind the Phillies for second place in the NL East.

First-year manager Luis Rojas insisted it’s not time to panic.

“Our approach is day-to-day,’’ Rojas said when asked if time might be running out. “It’s been like that and it’s still like that. We know there are 17 games left, but we stay within one game. We’ve got to get hot, get on a streak like this team can and we’ve got to start [Wednesday].”

They could hardly be worse than on Tuesday, when the lineup was shut down by a starting pitcher who might even have a hard time cracking the Mets’ battered starting rotation and Michael Wacha delivered yet another subpar outing in the latest loss at Citi Field.

And the night only got worse in the eighth, when Robert Gsellman had to be helped off the field with two outs with a left oblique strain in his return to the bullpen.

They’ll turn to Rick Porcello on Wednesday in what Rojas called a “big” game.

One of the only parts of the offense that showed up Tuesday was Marisnick, who homered with two outs in the bottom of the second to make it 2-1.

“You look around the clubhouse and there’s not a lot of guys hanging their heads,’’ said Marisnick, who also made an error in center that led to a run. “It’s a tough loss. This team is too good to not make the playoffs. I think we know that. We’ve got to play better than we did tonight and take care of business.”

Wacha was a culprit again Tuesday, allowing five runs — four earned — in just four innings. And before exiting with the oblique injury, Gsellman gave up six runs in 3 ²/₃ innings.

Baltimore hit a pair of two-run homers off Wacha in the first three innings and added on in the fourth, with some help from the Mets defense.

Pat Valaika led off with a liner to deep center that Marisnick tracked down, but the ball glanced off Marisnick’s glove for a two-base error. After moving to third on a groundout, the Orioles went up 5-1 when Valaika scored on Cedric Mullins’ triple to right-center.

Meanwhile, the Mets’ bats were mostly silent against left-hander John Means, whom the Mets tagged for four runs in 5 ¹/₃ innings last Wednesday in Baltimore.

On Tuesday, Means limited the Mets to just the one run on three hits in six innings — even retiring 11 in a row at one point.

It was the fourth straight win by Baltimore, who arrived in Queens fresh off three consecutive victories over the Yankees at Camden Yards.

The loss comes on the heels of their defeat on Monday at the hands of the Phillies, when the Mets wasted a late comeback, only to lose in 10 innings.

“I liked how the guys never back down,’’ Rojas said. “It’s been tough. … We had a tough loss [Tuesday] and we came in today and had another tough loss. We have 17 games left. We do not feel time is running out, but we need to get that win.”

They need a lot more than one.

“We don’t have a ton of games left,’’ Marisnick said. “We don’t have room for error anymore. We have to start getting to work and take care of business.”