The last time the Mets returned to Citi Field, they were 11 games into a historic losing streak and had the worst record in baseball.

When they open their homestand Tuesday against a Detroit team that’s dropped five of six, the Mets will still have the worst record in the sport and may be in an even more dire spot than before.

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Any hope that their awful start would last just a few weeks — as bad as that would have been — has been erased.

And the reality of the situation is even more evident: The Mets are bad, and there doesn’t seem to be an answer for how to turn their season around.