Perhaps it will not matter because baseball seasons are a marathon, and we don’t evaluate marathons through specific turns during the 20th mile.

But one game out of the 162 can be pinned to Billy Eppler. The general manager was more at fault than any Mets player or coach for Tuesday’s 4-3 loss to the Dodgers. In the contest’s largest moments, two players Eppler stuck with at the trade deadline did not come through.

Buck Showalter called on Joely Rodriguez in the seventh inning with several lefty Dodgers due up. Rodriguez has had an up-and-down season, but the problem has been less about Rodriguez and more about the scarcity of Rodriguezes: There was no other southpaw to call upon.

So Showalter inserted his only lefty, who gave up a hard-luck double to lefty Freddie Freeman and an RBI, go-ahead single to lefty Gavin Lux.