Carlos Correa knows this feeling all too well. It feels the same, he said, as it did late last season — when the Twins spiraled out of playoff contention, finishing the final 39 games 12-27 as nearly four months of good play went down the drain and the Twins missed out on a postseason berth.

The early part of the Twins’ season has been marred by poor defense — particularly from the team’s pitchers — and a slow offensive start up and down the lineup. Monday, in a 5-1 loss to the New York Mets at Target Field, the Twins showed off both.

The Twins finished the night with just one more hit (3) then errors (2), both of which came from relievers on throws to first base. Yet another flat effort has brought the Twins to 5-12 on the season.

“We have to figure out a way to bounce back and make sure this doesn’t dictate the rest of the season,” Correa said.

The Twins are just over 10 percent through their season. It’s still early. But their search for answers — How do they turn this around? Where has the offense gone? What’s with all these errant throws by their pitchers? — has not yielded quick results.

“We’ve been trying. We’ve been putting in the work and doing everything that’s within our control,” Correa said. “Honestly, I don’t know what to tell you right now. But we have to figure it out as a team.”

Monday they were unable to do so, squandering a strong start from Joe Ryan.

The Twins didn’t fully capitalize on their best opportunity — a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the fifth inning produced just one run, which scored on a Christian Vázquez sacrifice fly — and had few other chances against reliever-turned-starter Clay Holmes and the Mets’ bullpen.

Holmes, previously an all-star closer with the New York Yankees, begin his day by striking out the side in the bottom of the first. He allowed a single to Trevor Larnach and a Matt Wallner triple, but the Twins were otherwise unable to muster anything else against him in his five innings of work.

Even in the fifth when he gifted them an opportunity, walking two and hitting a batter, the Twins couldn’t take advantage. They finished the night with 13 strikeouts and have now scored two or fewer runs in nine of their 17 games.

“We had a tough time getting anything going on at all,” manager Rocco Baldelli said.

And yet, the one run they did score took them into the middle innings tied thanks to their own starter, Ryan, matching the effort from Holmes.

Ryan went five solid innings, surrendering just one run on three hits while striking out eight. It wasn’t until after his departure that the Mets (11-5) were able to pull away, the go-ahead run scoring after Mark Vientos doubled to right, scoring Pete Alonso, who had singled off Justin Topa to lead off the sixth.

Topa, later in the inning, fielded a slow tapper and sailed a throw well over first baseman Ty France’s outstretched glove. Instead of ending the half inning down just a run, another run scored, widening the Twins’ deficit.

“It’s one you make 99 out of 100 times. And unfortunately tonight, I just threw it down the right-field line,” Topa said.

An inning later, Jorge Alcala’s low throw on a Luisangel Acuña bunt allowed the speedy runner to get to second. He would later score on a Juan Soto home run, one that put the Twins in a four-run hole.

All told, Twins pitchers have now committed six errors through the team’s first 17 games.

“These should be routine plays, and I don’t think any of these guys that are on our staff would argue with any of that,” Baldelli said. “We’ve just simply got to make those plays.”

The night threatened to get even worse when Vázquez took a foul tip to his right hand late in the game, forcing him to exit early. Initially, he said, he thought he was dealing with a broken bone, but imaging came back negative for a fracture.

Just one consolation on an otherwise disappointing night for the Twins.

“The results have been terrible so far as a team,” Correa said. “We have to make adjustments and make them quick.”