Not even Steve Cohen taking the team to task was enough to spark the Mets on Wednesday, as they lost to Milwaukee, 5-2, at Citi Field after the owner put the blame for their poor first half on the players.

It’s been nearly two weeks since the Mets have won consecutive games — and a month since they’ve won a series.

With their latest defeat, they’ve fallen a season-high 17 games back in the NL East, thanks to another win by Atlanta.

As Cohen noted earlier in the day, when they hit they don’t pitch and when they pitch they don’t hit.

On Wednesday, the Mets got five solid innings out of Kodai Senga pitching on regular four days’ rest, but after scoring seven runs in Tuesday’s win, the offense again came up small, scoring just single runs in the second and fourth.

The only drama happened in the top of the eighth, when Adam Ottavino hit Joey Wiemer with a pitch that Wiemer appeared to swing at.

Wiemer was still awarded first base to load the bases, despite the Mets’ protests.

After Ottavino gave up a two-run single to Christian Yelich to ice the game, Justin Verlander was tossed by first-base umpire Ron Kulpa for arguing from the dugout, followed by Buck Showalter, who came out to argue with Kulpa after Verlander’s ejection.

There wasn’t much life at Citi Field the rest of the night, in another crummy night in Queens, which started when Senga gave up a blistering 113 mph double to right-center to Yelich to open the game before striking out William Contreras and Rowdy Tellez.

But Willy Adames followed with a walk and Jesse Winker made Senga pay with a two-run double to left-center to put the Mets in an early 2-0 hole.

Tommy Pham hit a solo homer off the second deck in left with one out in the bottom of the second off Wade Miley to cut the deficit to 2-1.

Senga got into trouble again in the third, loading the bases with two out before fanning Brian Anderson to keep it a one-run game.

He needed 71 pitches to get through three innings.

The Mets took advantage of Wade Miley’s wildness in the bottom of the third, as Wiley walked Francisco Lindor and Pham — with a Pete Alonso single mixed in — to fill the bases with no one out.

Alvarez followed with another walk to force in Lindor and tie the game.

But with bases still loaded and one out, Mark Canha grounded into an inning-ending double play.

Having knocked out Miley after four innings, the Mets failed to capitalize on Brandon Nimmo’s one-out double in the fifth.

Senga was removed after five innings and 102 pitches, and replaced by Grant Hartwig, who gave up a leadoff double to Owen Miller and a one-out RBI single to Blake Perkins to put Milwaukee ahead again, 3-2.