Padres vs. Mets Game Highlights (9/16/25) | MLB Highlights

Padres’s and Mets. As good as it gets, it should be a playoff atmosphere here tonight. It’s going to be exciting. And which team is going to blink first? Because the Mets are reeling. The Padres’s playing some pretty good baseball. All boils down to good hitting and good pitching. Let’s see who wins this battle. Meanwhile, the Mets try to get their starting pitching to the finish line. Are going to do something different tonight. They’re going to piggyback Klay Holmes and Shawn Maniah. A rightfully proud Francisco Lindor and his three kids watching Francisco’s wife Katcha play the national anthem on the violin today. She did a fantastic job. She certainly did. The 425 batting average that Arise has against the Mets is the highest of any player in history with at least 50 of bats. And he foul tips it for strike three. A rare strike out for Arise. Only the second time the Mets have ever struck him out in 82 plate appearances. Here’s Manny Machado. Machado pops one up behind second. Mcneel retreats and Jeff puts it away to retire the side. One, two, three for Holmes on the top of the first. The Padres’s rotation down the stretch. Boy, do the Padres’s need Michael King. Overall this season, 13th start. Nice record, beautiful RA. Two hard hit singles by Lindor and Sono and a bit of a flare by Alonzo. And the Mets have them loaded up. Three straight hits. Brandon NMO coming up trying to jump on King early. Just his third start since May. Mets have hit six grand slams this year. Brandon NMO has three of NMO takes one the other way from base hit and the Mets have the early lead. Lindor comes in to score. Everybody else moves up a base. Four straight hits against Michael King to start the first inning and it’s one- nothing New York. I got to wonder. Here comes the pitching coach. That’s for sure. This is loaded. A run in for the Mets in the first. And again, trying to minimize the damage. Here’s Mark Bentos, the DH. Back to King. He’s coming home for the out there to first. There you go. There’s your one, two, three DP. Two down in the inning. Oh, I love that. As I mentioned, that is the perfect scenario for any pitcher in that said situation. Boy, he might get out of this with one run. Now, Jeff McNeel with second and third and two down. Jeff Hitless in his last 11 at bats. He’s got Alonzo at third and Nemo at second with two down. And Jeff jumps on the first one. Hits it right over the bag and down the line. And that’ll bring in two. Tracked to the corner by Tatis. McNeel pulls it at second base with a two-run double. And the Mets have three runs home in the opening inning. Those two out RBI’s are killers. Boy, as a pitcher, Gary, you’re you’re one out away from just getting out of dodge with just one run with the bases loaded, nobody out. And then the back breaker from McNeel. And out Brett Batty. Brett says the All-Star break is hitting 296 with an 833 OPS. And now Batty cracks one to deep right field. Tatis goes back. It’s out of here. A two-run bomb from Brett Batty and it’s 5 nothing New York in the opening inning. Number 17 for Batty and the Mets with a first inning barrage. A long two run homer for Brett Batty. His 17th of the year and the Mets are having a party here in the first inning as they lead the Padres’s five to nothing. Two down here in the second inning for Jackson Merrill. Merryill drives one out towards center field and deep. Back goes Mullins at the wall. is gone. A home run. Jackson Merrill connects on his 14th home run of the year. Hadres are on the board. He’s looking hot. He’s swinging the hot challe. He’s looking really comfortable, really confident. Francisco Lenor at a base hit to center. His first time up. Nets are being very aggressive against King. But again, it’s only his third start since May. He’s looked a little off tonight. Lor cracks one to deep right field and that ball is gone. Francisco Lindor with his 27th home run of the year and the Mets have gone deep twice in the first two innings. They lead six to one. Big night for the Lor family. Ray Clementes number Ka playing the national anthem. And now Francisco two for two with a home run. So two out, nobody on. And Pete Alonzo coming up. He’s singled and scored his first time. And now Allonzo gets one in the air in a deep left center. That is way out of here. Oh boy. It comes down to the second deck. A monstrous home run for Alonzo. His 35th of the year and the Mets are just teeing off. It’s now seven to one. Maybe that win on Sunday will ignite this team offensively. Well, the Mets had not scored more than five runs in any of their last 11 games. They’ve got seven in the first two innings tonight. Jake Cronorth to lead it off here in the third. Work to do for the Padres. They trail by six in the air to center field. Struck pretty well. Mullins going back at the wall and it is gone. Home run for Cronorth. Jen gets his 11th of the year and the second home run hit off Clay Holmes tonight by the Padres’s. Ironically, the Padres’s who don’t hit very many homers have decided to get in on the homer barrage here today. Sean Mania is up in the Mets bullpen a little earlier than expected with Holmes having only thrown 39 pitches. Well, you’d like to see him get five in. Get a win. Get him his 12th win. Three and two on the batter with two outs and a runner at second. Swing and a miss. Change up. He gets Merrill to expand the zone down and ends the inning. Play Holmes and the Mets lead San Diego 7 to2. The only Mullins home run with the Mets came I remember in Milwaukee for that weekend set. Mullins no doubt has struggled to hit 188 coming into tonight with the Mets in a 571 OPS. Mullins drives one to deep right field. Tatis back and it’s out of here. Cedric Mullins with the Mets fourth home run in the first four innings. 17 on the year, his second as a Met. And the Mets just keep on launching. Mullins have been swinging the battle a little better the last few days. And now he takes Michael King deep. And looks like that’s going to be all for the Padres’s right-hander. Oh, what’s that clown doing here? That’s Rudolph. Rudolph would never be seen with hair like that. This is this is the booby prize for finishing last in his fantasy football league. He’s got to come dressed as a clown. Klay Holmes has done his work as the front part of the piggyback. Shawn Maniah will come out of the bullpen as the back end of the piggyback. And if this goes well, there’s every chance the Mets might do it again. Come back off the glove of Maniah into no man’s land. He runs it down and got him. Nice hustle by Maniah after the ball clicked off his glove to run it down and throw out Croninworth. Two out now. Freddy Firmine who flyed out to write his first time up. Grounded down to third. Batty waits on the hop. Throws out Firmine and Maniah’s got a one, two, three inning in his first inning out of the pen. Halfway through 82 New York. Third inning for Maniah after play. Holmes went the first four. The piggy back is working just fine. So two up and two down for Maniah and Ryan O’Harn will get a crack left on left. Another broken back. This time Alonzo has to get out of the way of the shard and so Maniah goes over and makes the tag. Freddy Fine stands in 0 for two with a line out and a ground out as Fine sends one in the air to left field. Pretty well struck. Nemo’s going back. He is at the wall looking up. It’s going to go. Freddy Fine with his second as a Padre. Third home run of the night for San Diego. Unfortunately, all solo shots and with one out here in the eighth inning, it is now 8 to3 Mets. Maniah quite often in his starts has turned in three spotless innings and then struggled in the fourth. Well, this is his fourth inning of relief and he gives up a home run to Fine. Maniah trying to finish off this top of the eighth ahead on Machado 0 and two. Machado drives one out to center coming on as Mullins side retired. Nia gives up the home run to Fine but nothing else. It’s 83 in the eighth and tight. That almost hit him in the you know where the hand, but he got out of the way of it. It hit the They call it hit the back. It might have. Leave those hands alone already. And now Alvarez gets hit. That got him on the elbow and he’s really unhappy. Oh man. Rodriguez making just his third major league appearance. Came inside earlier in the at bat and went off Alvarez’s bat. But this one caught him flush at 100 miles an hour. So Alvarez is coming out. Hayden Sanger will run for him. It’s one thing to do it once, but to do it twice in an at bat, you can see there’s some real upset in that Mets dugout. Sean Mania is going to try and finish this game. He came in to start the fifth inning after Klay Holmes went the first four. So, the piggyback is working as planned. Now, Ryan O’Harn and he hits one in the air to center field. Cedric Mullen’s range is over and the ball game is over. The piggyback works to perfection. Holmes and Maniah combined to go nine. The Mets hit four home runs. score early and often and they defeat the Padres’s 8-3 for their second straight

Padres vs. Mets full game highlights from 9/16/25

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