The network has failed to churn out hits of the Lost, Desperate Housewives and Dancing with the Stars variety in recent years.

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Still worse, NBC lacks the handful of longer-running hits to make up for those failed experiments and to promote the new ones.

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But the offense managed just four hits, struck out 12 times and once again failed miserably with runners in scoring position, sending the Mets to their third consecutive defeat.

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