The Mets (mostly, not completely) took advantage of a bullpen game by the Angels. and Sean Manaea took another step in the right direction in his post-injury build up, as the Mets completed the sweep and capped off their fourth win in a row.
Manaea opened the game as well as he did in his last outing, striking out the side. Brandon Nimmo rewarded that with a lead off home run in the bottom of the first, his 19th on the season, putting the Mets ahead 1-0.
The second inning was not as nice to Manaea,
as a Taylor Ward single and Jo Adell walk put them in immediate danger. He got Old Friend Travis d’Arnaud to fly out, before loading the bases with a Luis Rengifo walk. Manaea worked out of the trials and tribulations of his own doing, however, getting Chris Taylor to ground into a double play to end the threat. The bottom of the second went nearly identically to the top of it, as Starling Marte and Brett Baty hit back to back singles to lead off the inning. Mark Vientos put a dent in the threat with a double play, and Luis Torrens ended it with a pop out.
The third inning saw Manaea settle in, though he did surrender a solo home run to Mike Trout, which is hardly something to be ashamed of. Manaea threw scoreless innings in the fourth and fifth on the back of it, ending his day with a strong line of: five innings pitched, two hits, one earned run, two walks, and five strikeouts. Outside of the second inning jam and the solo shot to a future Hall of Famer, Manaea looked closer to form than he did in his previous start.
The Mets rewarded with Manaea with quality run support. Eder, who did the valiant job of pitching the final six innings of the game for the Angels, got off to a rough start in the bottom of the third. A Tyrone Taylor walk and Nimmo hit by pitch saw the Mets threaten again with no outs, this time for the brutally slumping Francisco Lindor. Lindor broke a career worst 0-for-31 streak at the plate with an RBI single, making it 2-1. After Soto (who is also in a mini-slump at the moment) popped out, Pete Alonso broke out of his own mini-slump with a mammoth three run home run, pushing the lead to 5-1.
Lindor, who seemingly completely forgot about his career worst 0fer coming into the game, added another RBI single to his ledger in the bottom of the fourth. cashing in Luis Torrens, who reached on a fielder’s choice (Mark Vientos led off the frame with a double and got thrown out at third on a ground ball to the shortstop), and was pushed to second by a Nimmo single. It gave the Mets a 6-1 lead.
The Mets did more hanging on than dominating to the finish line after they took that five run lead in the fourth. Eder really settled in for the Angels, holding the Mets scoreless from the fifth inning on after getting hit around in his first two innings. The Mets bullpen wrote another chapter in their autobiography Bend But Don’t Break (though Huascar Brazobán threw a hitless sixth in relief of Manaea, so he gets a pass).
José Buttó, fresh off an injured list stint due to an illness, was rusty in his return. Coming into relieve Brazobán in the seventh, Buttó surrendered two runs in the frame and only got two outs before Carlos Mendoza turned to Brooks Raley. Raley, who has been absolute nails in both his rehab assignment and his big league return from Tommy John, had his first shaky outing of the 2025 campaign. He walked the first batter he faced in Nolan Schanuel before getting Trout to ground out as the tying run in a 6-3 game.
Raley got the eighth as well and was still not sharp. He walked the lead off hitter, got the next two outs, and was pulled in rather aggressive fashion for closer Edwin Díaz.
Díaz hit the first batter he faced, and was promptly bailed out by some...questionable umpiring. He got the tying run, Luis Rengifo, to strike out looking but dear reader, you be the judge:
I think Edwin Díaz will happily take that one. pic.twitter.com/9IHZz0XyqI
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) July 23, 2025
The top of the ninth saw the only fireworks coming from the Angels dugout, as their manager Ray Montgomery and offensive coordinator Tim Laker got ejected for three obvious and frankly justifiable reasons (those are listed in the tweet above), as the Mets went down in order.
Díaz started off the ninth just as shaky as he was in the eighth, leading off the inning by hitting Chris Taylor in the helmet with a fastball (thankfully, Taylor got up immediately and seemed okay, but it was very scary nonetheless). Díaz, to his credit, settled down after that, getting Zach Neto to strike out, Nolan Schanuel to weakly ground out, and Mike Trout to pop out, making him the last out in back to back games.
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FanGraphs.comBig Mets winner: Pete Alonso, +18.1% WPA
Big Mets loser: Mark Vientos, -7.4% WPA
Mets pitchers: +13.9% WPA
Mets hitters: +36.1% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Pete Alonso’s three run home run, +19.0%% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Mike Trout’s solo home run, -12.3%% WPA
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