Mets 8 Padres 3 (Petco Park, San Diego, CA)
Mets Record: 67-61
Mets Streak: W2
Mets Last 10: 6-4
WP: Luis Severino (9-6)
LP: Dylan Cease (12-10)
Seat On The Korner:
We select the star of the game and virtually invite him to a Seat on the Korner, just as Ralph Kiner used to do for his studio postgame show on WOR-channel 9 broadcasts in the early decades of the Mets.
Today's Seat On The Korner goes to Mark Vientos, who drove in the first run of the game in the first inning and then came through again in the ninth with two more RBIs for important insurance runs. Vientos first inning double extended his career-long hitting streak to 10 games. The Mets young third baseman now has 54 RBIs in only 80 games this season.
Need To Know:
The Mets have won the first four games against the Padres this season and have clinched the season series.
New York's 17 hits were their most in a game since their 15-2 win against the Twins on July 29th.
Seven different Mets had multiple hits.
The Mets had five doubles tonight by five different players: Francisco Lindor, Mark Vientos, Tyrone Taylor, Jose Iglesias, and Jesse Winker.
Francisco Alvarez was the only Mets starter without a hit. He went 0-5, with 4 strikeouts.
During his current ten-game hitting streak, Mark Vientos is batting .359 (14-39) with 7 runs scored, 4 doubles, 3 home runs, 10 RBIs, and 4 walks.
For his career, Jose Iglesias is now batting .333 (21-63) at Petco Park with 5 doubles and 8 RBIs in 16 games.
Reliever Dedniel Nunez is with the Mets in San Diego and will probably be activated on Friday.
Turning Point
The Mets headed into the bottom of the 5th inning with a 3-0 lead. However, a walk, a single, and another walk quickly put the tying runs on base with no outs. Padres first baseman Jake Cronenworth then pulled a 110.9 line drive that Jose Iglesias picked on one hop to start a nifty double play. While the Padres did score their first run on that play, starting pitcher Luis Severino was able to get out of the inning without allowing another.
Three Keys:
Every Day They're Hustlin'
Both Jeff McNeil and Jose Iglesias had two-out run scoring infield hits. McNeil beat out a grounder to shortstop Mason McCoy in the top of the 4th inning to make the score 3-0.
Iglesias singled on a ground ball to third baseman Manny Machado in the 9th inning to drive home the Mets 8th run of the evening.
Bullish About the Pen
While Luis Severino only gave up one run tonight while striking out 5 Padres batters, he was only able to go 5 innings, as his 4 walks and 5 hits drove up his pitch count. He left the game with a 3-1 lead and it stayed that way until the 9th inning thanks to three innings of hitless relief from Danny Young, Reed Garrett, and Phil Maton. While things didn't go as smoothly Huascar Brazoban in the 9th inning, the Mets had an 8-1 lead by the time he entered the game, so they were able to let him ride it out.
Late-Night Mets
The Mets scored five runs in the top of the 9th to open up their lead to 8-1 and allow a night off for closer Edwin Diaz. In that inning, they got hits from Jeff McNeil, Tyrone Taylor, Francisco Lindor, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Jesse Winker (a double), and Jose Iglesias, all off Padres reliever Logan Gillaspie, who had just been recalled from Triple-A El Paso earlier in the day.
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