Mets Win Sixth Straight With 10-5 Win Over Miami
The Mets (8-3) kept the good times rolling on Tuesday afternoon at Citi Field, capturing the series and notching their sixth consecutive win with a 10-5 triumph over the Marlins (5-6).
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Coming into the game with a league-leading 1.72 ERA, New York’s strong pitching carried the club through its recent winning streak, despite a quiet stretch at the plate where the team scored just seven runs over their previous three games. But on Tuesday, the Mets’ bats woke up and the team tallied double-digit runs, 13 hits, and scored in five of eight innings at the plate (with some help from two Miami errors). The win keeps the Mets undefeated at home, and the game marks their second double-digit victory of the year—both coming against the Marlins.
Clay Holmes (1-1, 4.30 ERA) got the start for New York, taking home his first win as a Met in his third start of the season. He went five and 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on five hits, walking three, and striking out a career-high 10—also the most by any Mets pitcher so far this season.
Clay Holmes is DEALIN’
10 K’s through five innings!
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Holmes ran into trouble early, giving up two runs in the first after a leadoff single, a pair of two-out walks, and a two-run single from Liam Hicks. From there, he settled into a groove, allowing just two baserunners over the next four innings. The newly-converted starter struck out the side in the fourth on just 10 pitches, one shy of an immaculate inning.
The Mets’ offense got going early, with a leadoff solo home run from Francisco Lindor in the first. It was his first of the season and his fifth straight game with a leadoff hit. That is the longest such streak by a Mets player since Jose Reyes did so in 7 straight from June 25-July 2, 2011, according to Sarah Langs of MLB.com. Pete Alonso then tied things up in the third with an RBI double.
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New York broke it open in the fifth. Hayden Senger singled, Lindor reached on a fielder’s choice, Alonso walked, and Brandon Nimmo laced a two-run double. With two outs, Starling Marte added a two-run single to put the Mets up 6-2.
The lead shrank to 6-5 in the sixth. Holmes allowed a walk and a double before being lifted for Huascar Brazobán to finish the inning. He induced a run-scoring groundout, but then surrendered a two-run homer to Derek Hill for the first home run allowed by the Mets’ bullpen all season.
The Mets bounced right back in the bottom of the sixth. Brett Baty singled and Senger beat out a bunt for a hit. Juan Soto was intentionally walked to load the bases for Alonso, who knocked a bases-clearing double for his fourth RBI of the day. This was the Polar Bear’s third four-RBI game of the year, which have all come against Miami.
New York threatened again later in the inning after Nimmo walked and Marte was hit by a pitch (for the fourth time already this year), but Tyrone Taylor’s deep fly ball to the warning track was robbed by a web gem catch—and a potential contender for Catch of the Year—from Derek Hill to save three runs and keep the Mets at bay with a 9-5 lead.
In the seventh, Luisangel Acuña singled, stole second, moved to third on a Senger groundout, and scored on a Lindor sacrifice fly with a textbook display of what Keith Hernandez would call manufacturing a run with good fundies, to make it a final 10-5, Mets.
A.J. Minter tossed 2/3 of the seventh inning, Danny Young had a 1-2-3 eighth, and Reed Garrett closed it out with a clean ninth inning, each adding a strikeout.
PLAYER OF THE GAME
Pete Alonso earns Tuesday’s honor with a 2-for-4 showing at the plate, with two doubles, four RBIs, and a walk. He is now slashing .333/.447/.692 through the first 11 games of the season. With his four RBIs, he also crossed the 600 RBI mark for his career!
ON DECK
Tylor Megill (2-0, 0.87 ERA) will take the mound for New York against Miami on Wednesday afternoon as they look to sweep the three-game series. In his last outing against the Blue Jays, he allowed just two hits over five and 1/3 scoreless innings, with three walks and four strikeouts.
Miami’s starter will be Max Meyer (0-1, 3.09 ERA). In his last outing, he threw six innings and gave up three runs on eight hits, with two walks and eight strikeouts.
First pitch is set for 1:10 p.m. on SNY.
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