Mets 8, Giants 1: Bats break out in the Bay

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The Mets won their fifth game in a row — and have gone 5-0 since Backyard Sport’s legend Pablo Sanchez visited Citi Field — beating up on the excellent Logan Webb and rolling pretty routinely to a 8-1 win.

Webb has always been a thorn in the Mets’s side, which makes this performance a little more impressive. The righty had not surrendered a run against the Mets since 2023, and that 2023 performance saw him seven innings of two run ball in a Giants win.

The 2025 Mets did not get that memo, though. and

had him tangled in turmoil from the get go. Brandon Nimmo led off the game with a double and was moved to third on a Francisco Lindor single. Lindor stole his 17th base of the season (spoiler alert: this becomes a trend on the day, shoutout Antoan Richardson), putting runners on second and third for Juan Soto. Soto had a neat little productive out, grounding out to push over the first run of the game. Pete Alonso followed suit with an equally productive out, flying out sacrificially to make it 2-0.

Clay Holmes got the start for the Mets and was, well, a mixed bag. No one will request this start to be put in the Louvre, but he scratched across a good enough job to earn the W next to his name in the box score. He gave up a lead off single to Heliot Ramos and first baseman Rafael Devers doubled to make it second and third with none out, a familiar situation for this first inning. Wily Adames hit a hot shot to third baseman Ronny Mauricio, who mishandled it before being able to get the runner out at home — he did get the out at first though. A Matt Chapman walk continued the tough inning, but a line out and a ground out ended the frame with a 2-1 Mets lead.

The second inning was mostly uneventful, as a Mauricio single was the only base runner for either team. The third inning was less quiet, though.

Lindor, who seemingly has put his dreadful career worst 0fer behind him, hit a home run to make it 3-1 Mets. The Giants had a busy bottom of the frame, getting two runners on, but a double play and a wonderful (and frankly serendipitous) tag by Alonso on an errant Mauricio throw kept the Giants off the board.

The fourth inning saw the Mets really put some distance between them and the Giants. They tagged Webb for three runs in the frame, with the bottom of the lineup starting the rally. Brett Baty singled to lead off the inning, Francisco Alvarez roped a single to center to continue it, and Mauricio walked to load the bases with no outs.

Tyrone Taylor beat out a would-be double play ball to make it 4-1 Mets, and promptly stole second. Brandon Nimmo plated them both with a single, and also promptly stole second. Back to back strikeouts by Lindor and Soto ended the rally, but the Mets took a 6-1 lead into the bottom of the fourth.

Holmes limped to the finish line, which for him was the fifth inning. He battled control issues and did not miss bats. ending the day with five innings pitched, one run surrendered, six hits, one walk, two strikeouts and 104 pitches.

Innings six through eight was a battle of strong performances out of the pen. On the Mets side, Huascar Brazobán pitched around two hits to throw a scoreless sixth. and Rico Garcia had an impressive seventh and eighth innings, striking out three in two perfect frames.

A trio of Tristan Beck, Matt Gage, and Spencer Bivens kept the Mets hitless through the middle frames, as the Mets bats went a little cold after their roaring start. They got back on the horse in the ninth, however, facing the sometimes closer and always electric Camilo Doval. Doval, according to one Gary Cohen, was getting work in this one due to pitching just once in twelve days, looked a bit like a pitcher who has barely pitched in two weeks. He hit Luisangel Acuña on the upper shoulder, in a scary looking hit by pitch that nearly hit his head. After back to back strike outs, Lindor kicked off a two out rally with a ground rule double. A wild pitch chased Acuña home, and a Soto single that took a funky bounce off the pitchers mound made it 8-1. José Castillo, who recently returned to the team today after a stint in Syracuse (and honestly, may be headed back to International League once New Friend Gregory Soto is activated) pitched a clean ninth to give the Mets their fifth straight win, and one of their most complete wins in a long time.

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What’s WPA?

Big Mets winner: Francisco Lindor, +17.9% WPA
Big Mets loser: No one :)
Mets pitchers: +16.0% WPA
Mets hitters: 34.0% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Francisco Lindor’s third inning home run, +10.9% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Rafael Devers’s first inning double, -11.2% WPA

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