SAN DIEGO (AP) – Jeff McNeil doubled in Starling Marte with the go-ahead run on the primary pitch of the tenth inning and the New York Mets prolonged their successful streak to a season-high six video games by beating the San Diego Padres 7-5 on Friday night time in a matchup of high-priced, underperforming groups.
McNeil’s grounder off rookie Tom Cosgrove (1-2) went simply inside the road previous diving first baseman Jake Cronenworth and into proper subject to usher in Marte, the automated runner. Francisco Alvarez adopted together with his fourth straight single to attain McNeil, the 2022 NL batting champion.
The Mets added on with a two-run single by Francisco Lindor, who had three hits and three RBIs as he adopted up his first profession five-hit recreation the night time earlier than.
Lindor homered off Yu Darvish within the third to drag the Mets to 3-2. It was his nineteenth. Daniel Vogelbach’s third single off Darvish tied it at 3 within the fifth. He additionally had an RBI single within the first.
The Mets had the bases loaded with one out within the ninth earlier than Nick Martinez received Marte to bounce right into a 1-2-3 double play.
“This was a big win for us,” McNeil mentioned. “We fought back on that one, battled all night and it feels good to that one. They’re playing well, we’re playing well, close in the standings. We need to keep playing good baseball. We’re doing that right now. We need to keep it up, finish the first half strong and take that momentum into the second half.”
Drew Smith (4-3) pitched the ninth for the win.
Manny Machado hit a two-run homer for the Padres within the tenth, his thirteenth.
The Padres dropped to 0-8 in extra-inning video games. They had been coming off their first three-game sweep of the season, in opposition to two-way All-Star Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels.
The groups got here in with 41-46 data and buried in fourth place of their respective divisions. The Mets have baseball’s largest payroll at round $360 million and the Padres are third at about $250 million.
The Padres had World Series aspirations after reaching the NL Championship Series. Along the best way, they eradicated the 101-win Mets in a wild-card collection and the 111-win Los Angeles Dodgers within the NLDS. They signed shortstop Xander Bogaerts to a $280 million, 11-year contract and welcomed again Fernando Tatis Jr. from an 80-game doping suspension, however have struggled offensively.
The Mets went on a jaw-dropping spending spree beneath proprietor Steve Cohen, however their bullpen has been a problem after Edwin Diaz was misplaced earlier than the season to a knee damage.
The Padres went forward 2-1 within the first when Machado hit an RBI double off Justin Verlander with two outs after which hustled dwelling on third baseman Luis Guillorme’s fielding error. Guillorme made a powerful leaping catch of Gary Sanchez’s line drive within the sixth.
Trent Grisham’s RBI double within the second gave San Diego a 3-1 lead.
Darvish, who had been sidelined by an sickness for simply greater than two weeks, allowed three runs and 7 hits in 5 innings.
Verlander, making simply his third profession begin in opposition to the Padres, gave up three runs, two earned, and 5 hits in six innings.
The Mets had been coming off a 9-0 laugher at Arizona.
“I think we need to start going on a little bit of a streak,” Verlander mentioned. “Some games are like yesterday’s and some games are like today’s. You get some games to go your way. It seems like a lot of things haven’t been going our way so it’s nice to see that change around a little bit.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: 2B Ha-Seong Kim was changed by Roughned Odor opening the ninth. Kim jammed his proper massive toe kicking a water cooler in frustration after he was thrown out making an attempt to stretch a double right into a triple with the rating tied within the seventh. Juan Soto then doubled however Fernando Tatis Jr. flied out to finish the inning.
UP NEXT
Mets LHP David Peterson (2-6, 6.61 ERA) and Padres LHP Blake Snell (5-7, 3.03) are scheduled to begin Saturday night time.
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