NY Sinks Miami On Ewing's Rebound and 3-Pointer (RBIs)

Mets - Marlins (LoanDepot Park - Miami, FL)

Mets record: 66-78

Mets streak: Won 2

WP - Jonah Tong (2-1)

LP - Eury Perez (7-11)

Seat on the Korner: A.J. Ewing

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A.J. Ewing is bouncing back from a huge slump in a great way. He came up big on Labor Day, going 3-for-5, with 3 RBIs.

His big double came in a one-run game in the top of the 4th inning.

With two runners on and two outs, Ewing shot the ball down the left-field line for a double to drive in Soto and Benge.

Bichette had already given the Mets the lead earlier in the inning, but Ewing's provided the insurance to put the team on cruise control for the rest of the day.

Ewing also drove in the Mets' 9th run of the game in the top of the 6th inning to pad those stats.

Need To Know

• Jonah Tong went 2-0 with a 0.84 ERA (2 ER/21.1 IP), 10 walks and 23 strikeouts over his last four starts at Triple-A Syracuse. Overall, he went 5-6 with a 4.54 ERA, 59 walks and 126 strikeouts in 23 starts at Triple-A Syracuse this year.

• How do you spell relief? In 46 games since the All-Star break, Mets relievers are 12-4 with a 3.08 ERA. They have allowed 56 ER in 163.2 innings. Their

  3.08 ERA is the fifth-best mark in the majors and the third-best in the

  NL.

• Beam me up, Scott: Christian Scott has not allowed more than four runs in

  each of his first 30 Major League starts...Joins Ian Anderson and Shane

  McLanahan as the only pitchers in Major League history to allow four or

  fewer runs in each of their first 30 career starts.

• Coming into the game, Eury Perez pitched 12 innings against the Mets, allowing only two earned runs.

• Chasing Pete: Carson Benge has 143 hits, the fourth-most

  by a Mets rookie in a single season. Ron Hunt is next with 145, followed

  by Ty Wigginton (146) and Pete Alonso (155)

• Four rookies started today's game for the Mets: Carson Benge (RF), A.J. Ewing (CF), Nick Morabito (LF), and Jonah Tong (SP).

Turning Point

After Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto each singled to reach base in the top of the 4th of a tied game, Bo Bichette did what he normally does: gets a hit with runners in scoring position.

Bichette shot the ball to the opposite field to drive in Lindor and give the Mets the lead for good.

Bichette had been batting .288 with runners in scoring position coming into Monday's game. He leads the team with 72 RBIs this year.

Three Keys

Marlins' Fielding

The Marlins were throwing the ball all around the field and not catching the ball at the other end of those throws.

Blunders were coming early and often for the fins. In the top of the first, the game's first run came on a wild throw by 2nd baseman Javier Sanoja. He fielded it cleanly while going to his left, but tried to throw against his body's momentum and threw it into left field.

The throw was so bad that Juan Soto went from 1st to 3rd base on the play.

Later in the same inning, Carson Benge was stealing 2nd base when catcher Joe Mack's throw went into center field on the attempt. Bo Bichette walked home easily to make it 2-0.

Tong's Solid Start

Although he gave up four runs in the second inning, Jonah Tong stayed tough and ended up pitching 5 innings. His final stat line for the day was 5 innings pitched, while allowing 4 runs on 4 hits, with one walk and seven strikeouts.

Tong actually struck out the first four batters he faced, mainly on fastballs and changeups.

Things got a little hairy in the second inning when he started throwing a larger variety of his pitches, like cutters and curveballs.

Infusion of Runs

The Mets put up nine runs in this game, making it the 3rd time in the past five games that they scored nine or more runs in a game. The Mets came into the game as the lowest-scoring team in the National League, scoring two fewer runs than the SF Giants. However, the Mets may have crawled out of that dubious stat by putting up nine runs in the game. The offense seems to be clicking, since Soto has come back to the lineup, along with the rookies Morabito, Benge, and Ewing.