Bo Bichette's big blast caps series winning four run rally for Mets

Mets 4 Giants 2 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY)

Mets record: 65-78

Mets streak: Won 1

WP - Tobias Myers (1-2)

LP - Carson Seymour (0-2)

SV - Kodai Senga (6)

Seat on the Korner: Bo Bichette

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Bo knows his scouting reports. He got the inside slider he wanted from Carson Seymour in the 8th inning and ripped it for a three-run homer to give the Mets the lead for good, and Kodai Senga would hold on for a 4-2 victory which was the Mets' 30th comeback win of the season.. Tony Vitello walked Juan Soto unintentionally/intentionally walked Juan Soto to get to Bichette, which was the prudent move. But if that fueled Bichette's fire, then who am I to argue?

Need to Know

• Christian Scott threw 80 pitches (55 for strikes) in 4 and 2/3's innings, giving up two runs on four hits and no walks while striking out seven. Scott was pulled before he could pitch to Rafael Devers a third time (Scott had already struck him out twice in the game.)

• Nate Lavender struck out Devers with two runners on in the 5th to run his scoreless streak to 13 innings to start his Mets career. That's the third longest scoreless streak to start a Mets career in club history.

• Tobias Myers made his first major league appearance since July 11th. He pitched a scoreless 8th, only giving up an infield single to Rafael Devers. He became the 24th Met to gain a win this season (a franchise record).

• Kodai Senga pitched a 1-2-3 9th for his 6th save. He's 6-for-6 in save chances this season, and he capped four scoreless innings for the Mets bullpen.

• Cesar Perdomo pitched six scoreless innings for the Giants, giving up three hits and a walk while striking out four in his first career MLB start.

Turning Point

Brett Baty hit a double off the top of the left field wall on Saturday to drive home two window dressing runs. He needed six more inches for a dinger.

On Sunday, he got those six inches to give the Mets their first run of the game to start their winning four-run rally in the 8th.

Three Keys

The Rest is Money

Christian Scott pitched on eight days rest today. His numbers are impressive with six or more days rest this season: 27.1 innings, 1.098 WHIP, .196 average against, 11.9 K/9, .581 OPS against. Now, small sample size, and it doesn't really do you any good as most pitchers aren't going to regularly get six or more days of rest.

But it does give Andy Green a blueprint on what works with extra rest, and how Scott can better prepare his body to handle 4 or 5 days of rest so he can do stuff like this:

Scott hulked up on that fastball against Rafael Devers in the first inning. Devers is one of the hottest hitters in the league, and he was late Scott's fastball twice in that at-bat. It's partly because of the rest, and I'm sure partly because of the attitude and pitch selection that Scott, Luis Torrens, and the coaching staff crafted for him. But however it came about, it was impressive ... and something to build on.

The second at-bat to Devers was equally fascinating. He stayed up with the four seamer. Then after Devers hit a long foul ball off him, Scott stayed upstairs and changed speeds with the cutter and got him swinging ... and got Devers to look back at him afterwards in a bit of admiration.

A Change is Gonna Come

Scott's success isn't about rest, of course. It's about tinkering with his arsenal to make him more efficient. Scott needed 20 pitches to get through the first inning, but only 25 to get through the next two, including these two strikeouts in the 2nd:

The booth talked about Scott's changeup, about how he needed something that runs away from a lefty. Maybe that's the pitch that will help him reduce the foul balls that opponents hit off him to run his pitch count up (seven in the first). Steve Gelbs noted that Scott switched from the kick change to the split change to help that effort.

Here's Scott striking out Drew Gilbert to end his outing in the 5th:

Seeing what Scott does in 2027, his second full season in the bigs, will be fascinating.

A Pulchritudinous Outfield

It wasn't all peaches and cream on defense for the Mets ... Mark ... but at least in the outfield the Mets made a couple of plays that should get you excited for the future. First, Nick Moribito in left field.

Then it was Carson Benge (who else) in the 6th inning.

Remind you of something?

Not the same importance, but enough to keep you dreaming this winter.