In the history of the Mets, there have been some embarrassments, but it’s hard to imagine anything worse than last night.

It was the night the franchise celebrated its 40th Anniversary team. By the fourth inning, the 50,763 in attendance were encouraging their team with this chant:

“Go on strike! Go on strike! Go on strike!”

By the seventh, all the fans wanted was, “Just one hit! Just one hit! Just one hit!”

They got that but little else as Odalis Perez pitched perfectly for 6 1/3 innings in the Dodgers’ 10-4 crushing of the Mets at rainy and sticky Shea.

But the chant that most hurt came in the third when a throng behind home plate shouted, “Last place! Last place! Last place!”

This is where the $102 million Mets sit this morning in the NL East standings. They are six games under .500. Overall, the last-place Mets have lost seven-straight games and 10-consecutive at home.

“It’s killing me,” Bobby Valentine said. “What do you want to do? Take my blood pressure? It’s killing me. It’s killing my folks. It’s killing my family. It’s killing my dogs. The fans are mad and I understand it.”

While the Dodgers buried Pedro Astacio for eight earned runs in three innings, Perez, a former Brave, dominated.

In the seventh, Perez – who Valentine thought tipped his pitches – left the fans crying for a hit.

With one-out in the seventh, Perez fell behind Rey Ordonez 3-0. It was Perez’ only three-ball count of the night.

Perez just missed inside and low with a slider. He stepped off the mound and pounded his glove, disappointed with the call.

“I was disappointed because you don’t see a perfect game that often,” said Perez, who in late April faced the minimum 27 batters, but allowed a bad hop single to the Cubs’ Corey Patterson in the seventh. “I would’ve been a part of history.”

On his next pitch, with Mike Piazza at-bat, Perez went with a change. Piazza, showing why he was chosen as the 40th Anniversary catcher, demolished it 455-feet, over the Picnic Area in left.

The two-run homer, Piazza’s 328th as a catcher, moved him past Johnny Bench into second on the all-time list. Only Carlton Fisk with 351 has more as a catcher. It gave the fans their one-hit and a moment of solace. However, it didn’t do much for Piazza.

“We had some tough times last year, but this is one of the most frustrating times in my career if not the most,” Piazza said.

The rainy pre-game festivities fit with this season’s theme. As announcer Gary Thorne introduced the 40th Anniversary All-Amazin’ Team, the players from Tom Seaver to Piazza were initially greeted by Mr. Met then GM Steve Phillips and VP Dave Howard.

Last night at 7:43, Astacio threw the opening pitch. By 7:43 and 30 seconds, the fans were booing.

On the pitch, Dave Roberts dragged a bunt that Mo Vaughn fielded on the infield grass. The hefty Vaughn didn’t even try to beat the speedy Roberts. Afterward, Vaughn was out of words.

“I sat here for two weeks and talked about this,” Vaughn said. “There is no more to say about this. It is what it is.”

In the ninth, Jeromy Burnitz stepped up to the plate to the sarcastic chants of “MVP! MVP! MVP!”

It is what it is. And it is embarrassing.