The Mets kicked off their five-game sequence with their divisional rival Atlanta Braves with a convincing 6-4 win, powered by the lengthy ball, a stable outing from Carlos Carrasco and an electrical six-out save from Edwin Diaz.
After a 1-2-3 first, Pete Alonso drove within the first run of the evening on a line drive single into left that introduced Starling Marte round from second.
After one other good inning from Carrasco within the second, new Met Tyler Naquin homered on a 2-0 meatball from Braves starter Kyle Wright that landed within the bullpen in right-center.
Carrasco ended the third together with his fifth strikeout. In the underside half of the inning, after Francisco Lindor drew a two-out stroll, Alonso lasered a two-run homer, his twenty ninth of the 12 months, 412 ft into left-center. Alonso ticked as much as 91 RBI on the 12 months after he touched residence plate.
Daniel Vogelbach adopted Alonso together with his first homer as a Met at Citi Field, a screaming no-doubter into proper. It was his second homer in as many days.
Carrasco bumped into some bother within the fifth inning that and noticed his scoreless streak finish at 22⅔ innings. Braves rookie Michael Harris II singled in a run and scored on Ronald Acuna Jr.’s two-run shot that minimize the Mets’ result in 5-3.
Wright ultimately settled down, however was stymied by the lengthy ball once more after Naquin’s second homer of the sport within the sixth — an opposite-field pop that stored carrying till it landed a number of ft into the social gathering deck in left area.
It was the workforce’s fourth homer of the evening.
Carrasco left after six innings with six strikeouts.
Adam Ottavino got here in for the seventh and allowed a second RBI single to Harris earlier than placing out Acuna to finish the risk.
Then the true enjoyable started.
Diaz, pitching for the primary time since final Friday, got here within the eighth to face the guts of the Braves’ lineup: Dansby Swanson, Matt Olson and Austin Riley.
Swanson swung on the first pitch and grounded out to Lindor whose throw beat the speedy shortstop by half a step. Diaz sat down Olson on a 2-2 pitch after the primary baseman’s checked-swing. He then blew away Riley, who went down swinging, too.
The Mets had been unable so as to add any insurance coverage runs earlier than sending Diaz again to the mound within the ninth to attempt to end a six-out save alternative.
The flamethrower allowed a single to Eddie Rosario, who superior to second on a wild pitch.
But Diaz took care of enterprise, placing out Marcell Ozuna and recording the ultimate out at first himself after Orlando Arcia checked his swing on a 3-0 pitch and weakly dribbled the ball towards first.
It was the nearer’s first six-out save in his profession and his twenty fourth of the 12 months.
The win gave the Mets a 4.5 cushion on the prime of the NL East—and put them 29 video games over .500—and raised their report towards the Braves this season to 5-3 forward of Taijuan Walker’s begin on Friday. The recreation was the Mets’ first of an 11-game residence stand.
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