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BALTIMORE — The first swing of extra innings proved to be the only one the Mets needed to cap their biggest comeback win of the season.
Juan Soto laced the go-ahead RBI single through the right side and Huascar Brazoban shut down the Orioles in the bottom of the 10th inning to finish off a 7-6 victory in front of 35,200 fans on Tuesday night at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
The usually-patient Soto skipped a first-pitch sinker from the Orioles’ Yennier Cano through the right side to score Francisco Lindor, the automatic runner, from second base.
“I’m just trying to move the guy over,” said Soto, whose 52nd RBI was the game winner, “try to put the ball to the left side of the field and try to bring Lindor into scoring position and a better place for Pete (Alonso).”
Soto’s single put the finishes touches on an improbable comeback.
The Mets were trailing by four runs in the top of the eighth inning before they used four straight hits, including a pair of two-run home runs by Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso, to even the score off Orioles reliever Bryan Baker.
Over the first five innings, the Mets bats crumbled in Baltimore’s muggy conditions. Rookie right-hander Brandon Young twirled his best major league start in four outings, culminating in the O’s first immaculate inning since 2019.
But as Young’s outing wore on, the opening presented for the Mets. In the sixth inning, Ronny Mauricio cranked a solo home run and back-to-back doubles from moved the Mets ahead momentarily before the bottom fell out against Clay Holmes.
The win helped the Mets improve to 53-39 on the season.
Mets’ blueprint coming together
For Soto, there is a sense of belief in the Mets’ lineup that meant there was no reason to panic when they went down 6-2 after the seventh inning.
The rally started when the top of the lineup started the eighth inning against Baker.
With Nimmo back in the leadoff spot, he fouled off three straight pitches before poking a single up the middle. Two pitches later, Lindor tagged a fastball for a 425-foot two-run home run to get the Mets within 6-4.
“(Nimmo) gave me an opportunity to see every pitch,” Lindor said. “The way he was fouling pitches off, I knew kind of what the pitcher was doing. That’s what I told him when I scored. I was like, ‘You set that up.’ That was a very professional at-bat.”
After Soto pulled a single through the right side, Alonso lifted an outside fastball over the right-center field wall to tie the game. The top four in the Mets’ lineup combined for eight hits, five runs and six RBI. With the top of the lineup performing all at once, the Mets can be a scary prospect..
“We have a great lineup. Those guys are griding day in and day out. Their at-bats are putting myself in a great spot,” Soto said. “When you have a guy like Lindor that can be in the bases and be running around and be in scoring position and then you have the cover from Pete that has the power. I think it’s really cool.”
Bullpen picks up Clay Holmes
Through five innings, Holmes felt in the best place he has all season. The Mets right-hander was controlling his sinker, able to deploy his changeup to both sides of the plate and mixing in his cutter and sweeper.
The Orioles had used one walk and an RBI single by Jackson Holliday to plate the first run, but the Mets carried a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the sixth on a solo home run by Ronny Maurcio and Nimmo RBI double.
In the sixth inning, Holmes hit Holliday and then gave up four straight hits, including a two-run double to Ryan O’Hearn and two-run single to Ramon Laureano, both on hanging sliders, to end his night at the five-inning mark. Holmes had entered the sixth inning with 71 pitches.
“Part of it was I wasn’t able to execute the slider as well as I had been,” Holmes said. “They did just a good enough job to stick some hits in there and couldn’t stop the bleeding.”
After Holliday knocked a solo home run off Alex Carrillo in his Mets debut, the Mets’ high-leverage trio of Reed Garrett, Edwin Diaz and Huascar Brazoban held the Orioles scoreless in the final three frames.
Garrett picked up an inning-ending double play with two runners on base in the eighth, and Diaz tossed a perfect ninth.
With the automatic runner on second base, Brazoban came through. He struck out Jordan Westburg, picked up a lazy pop-up from Gunnar Henderson and got O’Hearn to ground out to second to end the game.
It was a big bounce-back save for Brazoban, who had given up a combined 12 runs in his previous seven outings.
“We all know what we’re capable of doing as players,” Brazoban said through an interpreter. “We know what types of pitches we have. We know the type of talent that we have and that’s what keeps our confidence as players at a high level.”
Juan Soto on All-Star snub
Soto’s game-winning hit, which came as part of his second three-hit performance in three games, was the latest evidence of a surprising All-Star snub.
After Tuesday’s effort, Soto is now batting .269 with 21 home runs, 52 RBI and 66 runs, while upping his OPS to .908.
“It’s part of baseball. It’s part of it. It’s going to happen,” Soti said. “There’s a lot of players out there that have great numbers that deserve to be. It’s a roster that they got to fill and it’s only 25 guys. They can’t take all of the guys into it.”
The Mets have three National League All-Stars, with Lindor drawing the start at shortstop and Alonso and Diaz earning nods as reserves.
Members of the Mets are holding out hope that Soto can join them as a potential replacement.
“I hope he will be making it. I hope he gets the recognition he deserves,” Lindor said. “He has one of the best Junes and he has (some) of the best numbers in the league and he’s one of the best players in the league for a reason.”