The game was going well until it ended very poorly.
If you’ve watched the Mets play in Atlanta over the years, well, the way they lost their series opener there tonight really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. Despite taking a 4-1 lead into the eighth inning, the team went on to lose 5-4 in ten innings. That makes four consecutive losses for the Mets.
David Peterson had given up just one run through seven innings and was sent back out to pitch the eighth. He put runners on first and second quickly with a walk and a single, and things got worse from there. Reed Garrett gave up a single to load the bases, and after he got a pair of outs, he served up a game-tying three-run double to Marcell Ozuna.
You pretty much knew it was over at that point, but Edwin Díaz gave the Mets some hope with a perfect ninth inning after the Mets failed to score in the top of the inning. And then the Mets went down without even advancing their free runner from second base in the top of the tenth before finally losing in ugly fashion in the bottom of the inning.
And up next, Paul Blackburn starts opposite Chris Sale tomorrow night. Things are probably going to be fine, but the Mets are clearly in their worst stretch of the 2025 season thus far.
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Big Mets winner: Tyrone Taylor, +25.7% WPA
Big Mets loser: Pete Alonso, -19.1% WPA
Mets pitchers: -17.8% WPA
Mets hitters: -32.2% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Tyrone Taylor hits a two-run double in the second, +17.3% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Marcell Ozuna hits a bases-clearing double in the eighth, -44.6% WPA