The Mets offense is in full flight after latest drubbing
New York has now won eight straight games at Citi Field. Plus, how the Mets offense is finally reaching their next gear.
What’s up with the Mets? ⚾
The Mets offense continued to stay red hot, demolishing the Dbacks by an 8-3 score at Citi Field (box)
1B Pete Alonso went 2-for-3 with a home run (7), a walk and two runs scored
LHP David Peterson was solid over five innings, allowing one run on five hits with no walks and two strikeouts
CF Tyrone Taylor went 2-for-4 with a double, two RBI, a run scored and an incredible diving catch to boot
DH Starling Marte connected on his second home run of the season, a two-run shot
RHP José Buttó bounced back from a rough weekend, pitching two hitless innings with four strikeouts
The Mets offense has now scored 34 runs over their last three games, an average of 11.3 runs per game
New York has won eight consecutive games at Citi Field, and are now 13-1 at home to start the season
LHP Brandon Waddell is expected to make his first major league appearance since 2021 as the spot starter for the Mets in tonight’s game
Injury Updates 🏥
LHP A.J. Minter (left lat strain) is expected to miss “significant” time, and could potentially be out for the remainder of the season
Roster Moves 📰
LHP Sean Manaea transferred to 60-day injured list
RHP José Ureña designated for assignment
RHP Kevin Herget recalled from Triple-A Syracuse
LHP Brooks Raley officially signed
Who’s Hot? 🔥
Over his last 27 games, Pete Alonso has hit .367/.475/.694 with seven home runs, 11 doubles, a triple, 28 RBI, 22 runs scored and a 1.169 OPS
Play of the Game ⭐️
On a night dominated by the offense, we’re going to give some love to the Mets defense for our play of the game.
In the top of the 4th on a well-struck fly ball to left-center, Tyrone Taylor came out of absolutely nowhere to make an incredible diving catch. Ranging all the way from his position in right-center, Taylor’s sprint and full-extension dive proved to be without a doubt the most impressive defensive play of this young season for New York.
The top of the 4th was actually a complete defensive clinic from the Mets, also highlighted by a deflection and a sick short hop by Francisco Lindor sandwiched around this catch from Taylor.
Down on the Farm 🌾
SS Marco Vargas (No. 14 prospect, High-A): 1-for-5, 2 RBI, BB
LF Eli Serrano III (No. 22 prospect, High-A): 1-for-5, 3 RBI, run scored
BOX SCORES
Single-A STL | High-A BRK | Double-A BNG | Triple-A SYR (PPD)
Today’s Game 🗓️
Match-up: Mets (21-9) vs. Diamondbacks (15-14)
Where: Citi Field — Flushing, New York
Starters: TBD vs. RHP Corbin Burnes (0-1, 4.05 ERA)
When: 7:10 PM EDT
Where to Watch: SNY, MLB Network
Things are finally starting to click into place for the Mets offense ✍️
When we first entered this 2025 season, Mets fans had visions of grandeur when it came to thinking about whaat this starting lineup was capable of.
With the addition of Juan Soto, re-signings of Pete Alonso and Jesse Winker, and Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Álvarez as stalwarts of the lineup, there’s no wondering why excitement was high for this offense. The firepower is there, the star power is there, all that was left to do was to make it happen.
And yet, despite this team getting off to the best start in all of baseball this season in terms of wins and losses, that isn’t what happened.
In fact, one could argue that the Mets offense had been their biggest weakness over the first full month of regular season baseball. While they’d shown some signs of life in the occasional outburst or two, New York’s offense had largely underperformed to start the season. And that’s even with Alonso going nuclear to start off the 2025 campaign.
Through their first 21 games, the Mets offense ranked 19th in the league in runs per game (4.0), 22nd in home runs (19), 21st in on-base percentage (.302) and 29th in average with runners in scoring position (.177).
The team was largely inconsistent, weren’t getting on base, weren’t hitting for power and squandering nearly every scoring chance they were finding their ways into. And on top of that, they were also getting almost nothing out of some very key players.
Not only had the team been missing players like Álvarez and Jeff McNeil due to injury to start the year, but they were also getting almost nothing out of some very key players on this roster between the bad starts from Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Jesse Winker and Starling Marte, all of whom were underperforming based on what was expected of them.
Over these last few games, however, that dream that Mets fans conjured up has starting to take shape.
After yet another explosion last night, New York’s offense has now scored 34 runs over their last three games – that averages out to over 1.2 runs per inning, by the way! On top of that, the Mets lineup is now averaging 6.8 runs per game with 13 home runs over their last nine games.
Not only are the Mets starting to slug more all-around with their lineup basically being at full strength with the returns of Álvarez and McNeil, but that pesky RISP bugaboo has started to turn around lately, as well. Over those last nine games the team is 28-for-77 (.364) with runners in scoring position, the highest average in baseball over that sample size.
Lindor and Alonso have been showing out as stars for awhile, but they’re now being joined by players like Marte (homered last night), Tyrone Taylor (two hits and two RBI last night), and Vientos (hitting .316 with three home runs over his last 10 games).
The craziest thing about the club’s recent offensive outburst is that they still haven’t gotten their expected contributions out of Soto. Even though the team’s scored 34 runs over their last 27 innings, Soto hasn’t driven in a single one of them and hasn’t recorded an RBI over his last eight games.
Overall on the season, Soto is hitting .250/.374/.398 with three home runs (none at home), 12 RBI, 21 runs scored and a .722 OPS through 30 games. And while you’re still not at the point of worrying about him as a player, it’s certainly be a lot less than the Mets had anticipated to get out of the star outfielder early on.
That, of course, begs the question: if the Mets offense is humming now without him, how much better could they possibly look once Soto gets going?
Eventually, Juan Soto is going to get his. He’s too young and talented of a player with a proven track record of putting up numbers every single year. It’s going to happen. And when it does, this Mets offense is going to be fully operational in a way that we simply have not seen at any point this season.
It’s going to be something special to watch… and we’re already having fun watching what they’re doing right now.
Around the League 🚩
The Yankees hit back-to-back-to-back home runs to lead-off their 15-3 blowout victory over the Orioles
The Red Sox offense exploded for five homers in their 10-2 victory in Toronto, although Blue Jays CF Daulton Varsho may have made the catch of the year
Rangers RHP Jacob deGrom pitched six scoreless innings with seven strikeouts as the Texas offense broke out in a 15-2 win vs. the A’s
After allowing four runs in the top of the 9th, the Phillies mounted a comeback over their own and beat the Nationals on a walk-off wild pitch, 7-6
Good to see Butto bounce back. With Minter's injury, he's more important than ever.
Another Met pitcher injured....who could have seen this coming?? Is there something lacking in the conditioning routine set out? It's always something. Minters loss for majority of this season hurts.