Mets suffer first real flub of 2025 - how will they respond?
New York disappointingly lets a 7-1 late lead get away in Washington and lost on a walk-off in the ninth
What’s up with the Mets? ⚾
The Mets let a big lead get away and lost a disappointing game to the Nationals on Sunday by the score of 8-7 (box | highlights)
Tylor Megill started for the Mets and pitched well again, going 6.1 innings and allowing three hits on three runs and a walk while punching out nine
Jose Butto entered in relief of Megill and struggled, allowing three hits including a crushing three run homer by Riley Adams that got the Nationals back in the game
New York still held a one run lead heading into the bottom of the 9th, but Ryne Stanek allowed two runs while only getting one out, with the winning run coming home on a throwing error by first baseman Pete Alonso
Injury Updates 🏥
Ronny Mauricio (recovery from ACL surgery) has been placed on a rehab assignment with Single-A St. Lucie
Roster Moves 📰
LHP A.J. Minter placed on the 15 day IL with a left lat strain
RHP José Urena selected from Triple-A Syracuse
Who’s Hot? 🔥
RHP Huascar Brazoban fired a scoreless eighth inning on Sunday, continuing his excellent start to 2025. He’s now allowed just three earned runs in 17.1 innings across 13 appearances
In 24 games in April, Francisco Lindor has hit .347/.400/.541 with four doubles, five home runs, 13 RBI and 19 runs scored
Over his last 25 games, Pete Alonso is hitting .356/.464/.700 with 11 doubles, a triple, six home runs, 26 RBI and 17 runs scored
Who’s Cold? 🥶
OF Tyrone Taylor has just one hit in his last 17 at-bats
Play of the Game ⭐️
It would be easy to go with the game ending throwing error by Pete Alonso here, but the truth is this game flipped from a Mets win on cruise control to a stressful fight to the finish when Jose Buttó served up a two out three run homer to Riley Adams in the 7th:
Down on the Farm 🌾
OF Rafael Ortega (Triple-A): 3-for-3, HR, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 R
RHP Blade Tidwell (No. 15 Prospect, Triple-A): 4.2 IP, 4 ER, 7 H, 0 BB, 9 K
IF A.J. Ewing (No. 27 Prospect, Single-A): 2-for-4, RBI
BOX SCORES
Single-A STL | High-A BRK | Double-A BNG | Triple-A SYR
Today’s Game 🗓️
Match-up: Mets (19-9) at Nationals (13-15)
Where: Nationals Park — Washington, D.C.
Starters: RHP Griffin Canning (3-1, 3.12 ERA) vs. RHP Trevor Williams (1-2, 5.11 ERA)
When: 4:05 PM EDT
Where to Watch: SNY
Let’s see how these 2025 Mets rebound after the first real flub of the season… ✍️
In a season where essentially everything has gone right to date for the Mets, this weekend in our nation’s capital has gone off script.
After letting a back-and-forth contest get away on Friday night, Sunday afternoon represents the first real disappointing loss of the season.
This was a game the Mets controlled from the first pitch, and armed with a 7-1 lead in the 7th inning, with the way this team’s bullpen has pitched so far in ‘25, the game felt all but over. Until it wasn’t.
Jose Butto entered in relief of Tylor Megill in the 7th and was wholly ineffective, with his outing culminating in a three-run homer from Nats’ back-up catcher Riley Adams that closed the deficit to 7-6.
After securing his 7th save of the season the night before, the Mets were staying away from Edwin Diaz, and instead turned to Ryne Stanek with a one-run lead in the bottom of the 9th.
He promptly allowed a leadoff double, got an out, and then surrendered a game-tying single to C.J. Abrams. After a walk to James Wood, Luis Garcia Jr. bounced a groundball to first base that Pete Alonso threw away trying to hit Stanek covering first, and Abrams scrambled home with the winning run.
In the end, the details don’t even totally matter.
What I’m thinking about and looking forward to seeing is how this team responds from really the first gut punch they’ve endured this season. The Mets have had games where it certainly looked for a few hours would end up in certain losses, and instead they rallied and stole a win. This was the first time defeat was snatched from the clutches of victory.
Even with what has been a disappointing weekend to date in D.C., the Mets can still salvage a four-game split with a win behind righty Griffin Canning this afternoon before heading back to the friendly confines of Citi Field to open a series with Arizona.
Sunday’s game was the kind of contest that generally puts everyone’s focus on high alert, and I’m looking for a purpose-filled effort today and a pretty tidy win.
The way this team has played thus far has earned the benefit of the doubt, and I’m confident the slip-up yesterday is something this team’s leaders will not let multiply.
Around the League 🚩
Aaron Judge clubbed his 8th home run of the season to help the Yankees finish off a Sunday double header sweep of the Blue Jays
The Red Sox blasted three homers and scored 13 runs on 15 hits in a 13-3 drubbing of the Guardians
Hunter Brown fired six terrific innings and earned his 4th win of the season in Houston’s 7-3 win over Kansas City
Cincinnati got seven shutout innings from southpaw Nick Lodolo in its 8-1 win in Colorado
I think Nunez comes up after the 6th starter to try and find another high-leverage arm. This obviously isn’t directed at Megill yesterday, but overall we need more length out of the starters. The bullpen over-performed dramatically for the first 25 games. That covered for starters only going 5 routinely despite extra rest. That can’t remain the norm. The only way you win games with that lack of length is to have perfection from 4 different bullpen arms every day. It’s not sustainable.
"In the end, the details don’t even totally matter." !?!? Huh? The details nearly rendered me suicidal. Btw, is it my imagination or is throwing a persistent weakness of Alonso? If you look at yesterday's game and the first game of the series, the Mets' fielding has been atrocious. Anybody notice we have 3 regulars hitting under .200? At least a few good things happened yesterday: my boy Megill did it again, Torrens continues to hit, and Soto got on base four times.