The New York Mets hosted the Miami Marlins for the opening game of a four-game set. The teams were scoreless for the first three innings with the Marlins getting at least one baserunner in every inning. In the first inning the Marlins got two baserunners on via the walk, in the second inning they got a base hit but that was the only baserunner they got in that inning, in the third inning the Marlins got a hit but that was their only baserunner that inning. In the 4th inning the Marlins would break the ice getting a leadoff home run from Kyle Stowers but then the next three hitters in the inning were retired. The Mets were held without a baserunner until the third inning when Francisco Alvarez walked and they didn’t get their first hit until the bottom of the fifth inning. In the bottom of the sixth inning the Mets got two runs with an RBI single off the bat of Francisco Lindor and then the Mets scored their second run in the inning on an error by the Marlins third baseman Graham Pauley on a ball hit by Luis Robert Jr. Then in the top of the 7th inning after Nolan Mclean gets into a 3-0 count against Jakob Marsee he grooved a fastball to Marsee that was blasted over the wall to tie the game back up at 2 apiece. Then in the bottom of the eighth inning the Mets would take the lead from the Marlins and not relinquish the lead after Luis Robert Jr. hits a two-run single. In the top of the ninth, Devin Williams enters the game and walks the first batter he sees before striking out Jakob Marsee and Griffin Conine and then getting Javier Sanoja to pop out to secure his 16th save of the season. The Mets secured the win 4-2. The starting pitching lines from the game, Nolan Mclean went 6.1 innings, gave up 6 hits, walked 2 batters, struck out 6, and gave up two earned runs on 2 home runs. Eury Perez went 6 innings, gave up three hits, 2 runs, 1 earned run, 2 walks, and 6 strikeouts. For the Marlins, two players finished the game with multiple hits, Graham Pauley and Liam Hicks both went 2-3 on the night. For the Mets, only Bo Bichette had a multiple hit game going 2-4 and scoring a run. The Mets improved to 47-63 on the season while the Marlins fell to 55-55 on the season.
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The Mets and Marlins finish out a four game series with games on Saturday at 4:10 PM EST and Sunday at 1:40 PM EST both on SNY.
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