The Mets teed off on Carlos Rodón and the Yankees’ bullpen in a relatively easy win.
Brandon Nimmo opened the scoring with a grand slam in the bottom of the first inning, and the Mets never looked back as they beat the Yankees for the second time in as many days, extending their winning streak to four games in the process. In total, the Mets scored twelve runs, and the Yankees occasionally made the game close but never really threatened to come back in what wound up finishing a 12-6 game.
The Mets’ runs that scored after the Nimmo came on an RBI single by Starling Marte in the second, a two-home run by Pete Alonso in the fifth, a Francisco Lindor single in the seventh, a three-run home run by Alonso later in that inning, and a Juan Soto single in the eighth.
Things weren’t quite as rosy for the Mets’ pitching staff, though. Frankie Montas turned a decent start into a not-so-great one that saw him give up four earned runs in five-and-two-thirds innings. He’s only made three starts as a Met thus far, but he’s rocking a 6.14 ERA and a 5.82 FIP with an alarmingly high home run rate of 2.45 allowed per nine.
Mets relievers Richard Lovelady and Chris Devenski were able to record four outs while allowing just one run to score, but Ryne Stanek needed 37 pitches to get through an eighth inning in which he surrendered a run. And despite having started the bottom of the eighth inning up by five before tacking on their final run of the evening, the Mets brought in Edwin Díaz to pitch the ninth. Thankfully, he threw just 18 pitches in a scoreless inning of work to end the game.
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Big Mets winner: Brandon Nimmo, +21.9% WPA
Big Mets loser: none
Mets pitchers: +4.0% WPA
Mets hitters: +46.0% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Brandon Nimmo hits a grand slam in the first, +22.4% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Anthony Volpe hits a solo home run in the seventh, -6.4% WPA