The Mets haven't even clicked yet, and they're 8-3

New York wins their sixth straight game thanks to an offensive breakout. Plus, how the team is stacking wins despite less than perfect play.

What’s up with the Mets? ⚾

• The Mets won their sixth straight game on Tuesday evening, knocking off the Marlins by a 10-5 score (box)

• 1B Pete Alonso had yet another big game on offense, going 2-for-4 with two doubles, four RBI, a walk and a run scored

• RHP Clay Holmes had an encouraging start before fading at the end, allowing four runs over 5.1 innings with three walks and 10 strikeouts

• SS Francisco Lindor went 1-for-4 with a leadoff home run (1), two RBI and two runs scored

• DH Starling Marte had a good game, going 2-for-3 with two RBI and a walk in the win

• LF Brandon Nimmo also drove in a pair of runs, going 1-for-4 with a double, a walk and a run scored

• New York’s bullpen had yet another strong day, allowing just one run on two hits with four strikeouts over 3.2 innings pitched

• Despite scoring 10 runs on the day, the Mets struggles with runners in scoring position continued as they went 3-for-14 in such situations

• Former Mets relief pitcher Octavio Dotel passed away at age 51 in a nightclub accident in the Dominican Republic (MLB.com)

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Injury Updates 🏥

• C Luis Torrens (forearm contusion) was out of the starting lineup yet again on Tuesday

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Play of the Game ⭐

After the Mets allowed three runs in the top of the inning, this team found themselves in a bit of a sticky situation with a Marlins team that might not realize that they’re bad quite yet.

As we’ve seen a few times in this early season, Juan Soto was walked intentionally ahead of Pete Alonso to load the bases, giving the polar bear a golden opportunity to once again break this game open for the Mets. As he has so many times over the first 11 games of this season, Alonso took complete advantage of the table being set in front of him by torching a double into left-center field to clear the bases and once again break the game open.

New York would go on to enjoy a comfortable 10-5 victory after that.

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Today’s Game 🗓️

Match-up: Mets (8-3) vs. Marlins (5-6)

Where: Citi Field — Flushing, NY

Starters: RHP Tylor Megill (2-0, 0.87 ERA) vs. RHP Max Meyer (0-1, 3.09 ERA)

When: 1:10 PM EDT

Where to Watch: SNY

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The Mets are 8-3, and they haven’t even clicked yet ✍️

There’s a lot of things that haven’t quite gone right for the Mets early on this season. Sean Manaea, Frankie Montas, Francisco Álvarez and Jeff McNeil opened the year on the injured list. Luis Torrens has suddenly missed several games in a row. Juan Soto has yet to have his signature moment. The entire team has struggled massively to score runs.

And you know what the beautiful thing is? The team is 8-3, anyways.

If you ask me, that alone is what already has this Mets team feeling different. Sure, its frustrating when the club is scoring to score runs and take advantage of situations on most nights, but they’re finding ways to win despite that. That’s not something that happens too often around here.

Look no further than last year, as the club stumbled out of the gate and was completely incapable of winning games when things weren’t clicking into place perfectly. It wasn’t until June that this team shifted gears and began to dig themselves out of the hole they dug, eventually taking them all the way to the sixth game of the NLCS.

There are still some question marks surrounding this team, but overall a lot of the things that aren’t fully clicking right now are things that you can likely expect to improve.

Soto hasn’t been bad by any measure, but he hasn’t been massively impactful in the way that people expected. He hasn’t had that wild hot streak or dramatic “Mets moment” yet, and you know that it’s coming. He’s a 26-year-old superstar with a track record that tells you that it’s coming, and probably soon.

Francisco Lindor got off to his yearly slow start but appears to be breaking out of that far earlier than he has in past years. In his last five games, Lindor is 7-for-17 (.412) with a home run, two doubles, three RBI, six runs scored and a stolen base with only one strikeout. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Lindor put up yet another spectacular offensive season, especially in a lineup with as much talent as this one has.

Even Mark Vientos, who is probably the biggest x-factor and question mark in this Mets lineup, looks like he is starting to see the ball better. After getting off to a miserable start over the first couple series of the season, the young third baseman looks to be showing signs that he may be starting to come out of that in recent days. In the last four games, Vientos has three hits and four walks over 17 plate appearances. It may not jump off the page, but it shows that he might be seeing the ball a bit better and is a welcome sign after he reached base safely just four times over his first 29 plate appearances.

And, of course, you would expect the Mets to get healthier as the weeks go on and their quartet of injured starting players make their returns.

Overall, it’s hard not to be encouraged watching this team so far this season. It’s early enough in the year where it doesn’t really matter who or how they’re playing – just stack wins as much as you can. Right now, this team is doing just that.

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Around the League 🚩

• Braves C Sean Murphy drove in four runs in his return from the injured list as Atlanta defeated the Phillies, 7-5

• Atlanta acquired RHP Rafael Montero from the Astros in exchange for cash and a player to be named later

• Tigers LHP Tarik Skubal pitched six shoutout innings as Detroit shutout the Yankees, 5-0

• Nationals youngster James Wood had a big night, clubbing the Dodgers for two home runs and five RBI in the club’s 8-2 win

• The Cardinals knocked Pirates RHP Paul Skenes around for a career-high five runs as they beat Pittsburgh by a 5-3 score