Cold, Breezy Night Saved by Mauricio’s Scorching 107 MPH Walk-Off Single in the 10th

Mets 4 Diamondbacks 3 (10) (Citi Field , Flushing, NY)

Mets record: (7-4)

Mets streak: (W4)

Last 10 games: (6-4)

WP -(Weaver 1-0)

LP -(Sewald 0-2)

Seat on the Korner: Ronny Mauricio

We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets.

Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Main Event Restaurant & Sports Bar.

With locations in Plainview and Farmingdale, The Main Event features 80+ HD TVs, fresh daily seafood, and Black Angus certified steaks—so you never have to choose between great food and the big game.

The Seat on the Korner Star of the Game goes to Ronny Mauricio. You really can't beat a walk-off win in extra innings. However, imagine being the young Mauricio sitting out the entire game in cold and breezy conditions. Then being asked to come up to the plate to bat with one-out and a runner on 3rd base with the game on the line in the bottom of the 10th inning. He quickly went down 0-2 to Sewald, who seemed to have the free-swinging youngster right where he wanted him. The next pitch hit a little too much of the plate, and Mauricio got all of it. He hit the ball 107.4 mph, 337 feet, and scalded it over the head of the right fielder Carroll. Lindor scored easily from 3rd, and the Mets walked it off to start off the homestand on an exciting note.

Need to Know

• Tonight marked the start of a stretch of nine straight games for the Mets.

• The New York Mets moved tonight and tomorrow start times up to 4:10 p.m. due to expected cold weather and windy conditions.

• The Mets announced that the team will retire Carlos Beltrán’s No. 15 and he will enter the Mets Hall of Fame in a pre-game ceremony on Saturday, September 19, before the 4:10 p.m. game against the Philadelphia Phillies...Beltrán will become the ninth player in franchise history to have his number retired by the Mets, joining Tom Seaver (#41), Mike Piazza (#31), Jerry Koosman (#36), Keith Hernandez (#17), Willie Mays (#24), Dwight Gooden (#16), Darryl Strawberry (#18) and David Wright (#5)...In addition, the Mets have retired three other numbers, including Manager Gil Hodges

  (#14), Manager Casey Stengel (#37) and Jackie Robinson (#42).

• The Mets announced the following roster moves - OF Juan Soto has been placed on the 10-Day IL (retroactive to 4/4) with a right calf strain...A typical return to play for this type of injury is approximately 2-3 weeks. INF Ronny

  Mauricio has been recalled from Triple-A Syracuse. In addition,

  Tyrone Taylor is no longer wearing 15 and is now wearing #28.

• This was Freddy Peralta's seventh career game (fifth start) against the Diamondbacks. He is 4-0 with a 2.02 ERA (7 ER/31.2 IP) with 19 walks and 40 punchouts against the Snakes.

• This was Freddy Peralta's fourth career start at Citi Field. He is now 3-0 with a 4.15 ERA (10 ER/21.2 IP)

• Zac Gallen, in his last 4 starts vs. Mets, is 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA (3 ER in 18.0 IP), 10 walks and 19 strikeouts.

• Zac Gallen has 27 starts with 6.0+ shutout innings since 2022 which are the most in the Majors, ahead of Luis Castillo/CIN-SEA (24), Tarik Skubal/DET

  (23), Kevin Gausman/TOR (22), and Blake Snell/SD-SF-LAD (22).

• The Mets are 33-22 against the Dbacks at Citi Field.

• Francisco Lindor and Corbin Carroll both announced broken hamate bones within 36 hours of each other. Carroll hasn’t missed a beat, as he comes into tonight's game hitting .313/.410/.656 (195 OPS+) over his first 10 games. Lindor hasn’t hit much yet and comes into tonight's game slashing .135/.333/.243, though it’s hard to tell what’s rust versus his usual slow start. Both are tied with two triples, and Lindor comes into play leading the league with 10 walks.

• Over the last four games, the Mets have scored 28 runs on 48 hits with nine doubles, four home runs, 25 RBI, thirteen walks, five steals. This compares to a total of 25 runs on 49 hits over their first seven games of the season.

  
  
  
  

Turning Point

Tonight’s turning point came with the Mets down a run and one out in the bottom of the eighth when Jorge Polanco led off with a line drive single, and the Mets quickly sent in the speedy Tyrone Taylor as a pinch-runner. Trailing 3–2 at the time, it didn’t look promising. Luis Robert Jr. then struck out looking after running the count to 3–0 on three excellent pitches—though the third strike was certainly debatable.

Brett Baty followed with a scorching grounder up the middle past a diving Geraldo Perdomo, moving Taylor to third with one out. Jared Young then pinch-hit for Mark Vientos and delivered a deep fly ball to right, bringing Taylor home with the game tying run on the sacrifice fly.

Three Keys

New rule gives new life

In the top of the fifth, Freddy Peralta loaded the bases after recording two quick outs. Corbin Carroll singled to right, Geraldo Perdomo walked, and Gabriel Moreno was hit by a pitch on a 1–2 count.

Huascar Brazoban appeared to strike out Adrien Del Castillo on an inside fastball, but the call was challenged and overturned on a pitch that just missed off the plate. Del Castillo then lined a single to right, driving in two runs to tie the game. Nolan Arenado followed with a bloop into no-man’s land in shallow center—falling in front of Luis Robert Jr. and behind Francisco Lindor—bringing home another run and giving the Diamondbacks a 3–2 lead.

The Mets Bullpen

Technically, the Mets bullpen allowed zero runs in this game, but it was the timely strikeouts from Devin Williams and Luke Weaver that electrified the few thousand fans who stuck around to the end.

In the top of the ninth, Ketel Marte led off with a single, but Williams quickly shut down any momentum by striking out Corbin Carroll on three pitches. Another single put two on with two outs, yet Williams bore down and struck out Adrien Del Castillo to end the threat. Clutch pitching.

Luke Weaver took over in the top of the tenth, and the ghost runner never moved from second base. He induced a pop-out and a line-out, then faced Tim Tawa. After falling behind 3–0, Weaver battled back with a called strike, a foul tip, and finally blew a fastball past Tawa to end the inning—setting the stage for the dramatic walk-off in the 10th.

Gallen's Timely K's

Zac Gallen’s timely pitching helped him escape multiple jams. He quickly loaded the bases in the bottom of the first, but limited the damage to just one run by recording a strikeout and two lazy fly balls—one of them a sacrifice fly.

In the fifth, Gallen was even sharper, striking out Bo Bichette, getting Jorge Polanco to fly out, and then freezing Brett Baty on a full-count pitch for the backwards K.