Seattle Slew-ed: Mets Trot Past Mariners 7-1 and break 9 year streak

Mets 7 Mariners 1 (T-Mobile Park, Seattle, WA)

Mets record: 27-35

Mets streak: Won 1

WP - Freddy Peralta (4-4)

LP - George Kirby (5-5)

Seat on the Korner: Bo Bichette

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.

Despite coming into the game hitless in his last 13 at bats , if you're a believer in matchup history, Bo Bichette looked like a strong candidate for a big night before the first pitch was even thrown. Among the Mets' starters, only Juan Soto entered the game with better career numbers against George Kirby. Bichette came in 2-for-7 against the Mariners' right-hander, with a home run and two RBIs, and he only improved on those numbers Wednesday night. Bichette tormented Kirby once again, going 3-for-3 with two RBIs against him before adding a fourth hit later against José Ferrer and his third rbi by getting a sac fly off of Alex Hoppe. By night's end, Bichette had collected four hits and raised his lifetime average against Kirby to an even .500 (5-for-10) while driving in four runs in those ten at-bats. When the Mets needed offense, Bichette was at the center of it today, earning him today's Seat on the Korner with Ralph and a few Getty Gift cards to boot.

Need to Know

• The Mets announced the following moves:  RHP Joey Gerber was recalled from Triple-A. He will wear #56. RHP Jonah Tong was optioned to Triple-A following last night's game.

• The Mets ended their 7 game losing streak in Seattle as their last victory at T-Mobile Park come in 2017, back when Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz were Mariners.

• The Mets are 17-14 over their last 31 games

• Over his last nine games, Carson Benge is batting .300 (10-35) with six runs, two doubles, three homers, seven RBI, three walks

• Freddy Peralta was originally signed by the Seattle Mariners as non-drafted free agent in 2013...Today was his third career game against the

  Mariners...He is 1-0 with a 2.30 ERA (4 ER/15.2 IP) with three walks and

  18 strikeouts in those starts

• Tonight was his fifth start on the road this year...Peralta is 2-2 with a 2.79 ERA (9 ER/29.0 IP), ten walks and 26 strikeouts away from Citi Field in 2026.

  
  

Turning Point

This might not seem like a turning point at first glance. After all, the Mets had already built a 5-1 lead heading into the bottom of the fourth inning thanks to their own four-run outburst in the top half of the frame.

But anyone who has watched the Mets this season knows that protecting a newly acquired lead has not always been a simple task. Too often, a big inning has been followed by a shaky one, allowing opponents to climb right back into games.

The inning started well enough when Luke Raley struck out on a foul tip for the first out. Then the Mariners began to threaten. Cole Young lined a single to right, and Dominic Canzone followed with another base hit to the same spot, putting runners on first and second with just one out.

Freddy Peralta appeared to have Jhonny Pereda on the ropes after getting him to swing through two sliders. Looking for the put-away pitch, Peralta buried another slider in the dirt, but Pereda laid off. He then fouled off a 97-mph fastball and watched two more sliders miss the zone, working the count full.

With the count at 3-2, the tension in T-Mobile Park began to rise. A walk would have loaded the bases and brought the tying run to the plate in Colt Emerson.

Instead, Peralta got one of the strangest strikeouts you'll ever see without throwing another pitch.

Pereda was called out after requesting time twice during the same at-bat, ending the plate appearance in an unusual fashion and giving the Mets a massive second out.

Peralta took full advantage of the reprieve. He went right after Emerson and struck him out swinging to end the inning, completing something that has often proven elusive for the 2025 Mets: a clean inning immediately after taking a lead.

But in the context of this game—and perhaps this season—that scoreless bottom of the fourth felt much bigger than that. Instead of allowing Seattle back into the contest, the Mets slammed the door and kept all of the momentum generated by their four-run inning.

Three Keys

The Men of Steal

A perfectly executed double steal put a little extra charge into the Mets’ offense, with Juan Soto breaking for second and Carson Benge swiping home for the club’s first steal of home since Francisco Lindor pulled it off back in 2023. When Antwone Richardson was let go, one of the immediate concerns around the club was that the Mets’ running game might take a step backward without his influence. New base running coach Kai Correa did spend spring training working closely with runners on reads, timing, and aggression on the bases, but early results were muted, in large part because the Mets simply weren’t getting enough traffic on the basepaths to put those lessons into action. Lately, though, the signs have been more encouraging. As opportunities have increased, so has confidence, and the timing, reads, and decisiveness on plays like this one suggest the running game may finally be trending in the right direction—less station-to-station, more pressure on the defense, and just enough chaos to keep opposing batteries a little less comfortable than they’d like.

Team Effort

It was one of those nights where trying to find the “star” almost misses the point, because the Mets spent the evening doing what good teams are supposed to do: spread it around. In a 14-hit attack, seven of the nine starters collected at least one knock, and the damage didn’t come in isolated bursts so much as a steady drip of pressure from top to bottom. Bo Bichette led the way with a 4-for-night that felt like batting practice in the middle innings, while A.J. Ewing added three hits of his own to keep the lineup turning over and the Mariners from ever settling in. In all, six different Mets crossed the plate at least once, turning singles into innings and innings into momentum. Even when the ball wasn’t falling for everyone—Brett Baty and Marcus Semien combined to go hitless—the lineup never stalled, because somebody else was always picking up the slack. Juan Soto and Carson Benge chipped in key moments, Jared Young drove in a run, and Luis Torrens and the bottom half of the order kept the pressure on long enough for the top to cycle back through. It wasn’t a one-man show or even a two-man show. It was the kind of night where the lineup card mattered more than any individual box score line, and the Mets cashed in on exactly that kind of collective effort.

The Pitchers Best Friend

Freddy Peralta’s day carried its own quiet significance, especially for a pitcher who has had his share of trouble navigating the middle-to-late innings since joining the Mets. Getting through six full frames has not been a given, but on this night he managed to finally check that box against a Mariners lineup that thrives on lifting the ball and feeding off the friendly dimensions of T-Mobile Park. Peralta wasn’t spotless—he allowed six hits and issued two walks—but he also showed enough command and resilience to work through traffic without letting the game unravel. Outside of a leadoff home run by J.P. Crawford, he largely kept Seattle from doing what it does best, keeping the ball in the yard and limiting the kind of damage that can turn a lead into a rally in a hurry. Two of his biggest escape hatches came via double plays off the bats of Crawford and Josh Naylor, both of which helped him reset innings that could have easily spiraled. For a pitcher looking to redefine how deep he can go in games as a Met, this was the kind of grind-it-out six innings that won’t dominate the highlight reel—but absolutely matters in the bigger picture.

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