After dropping the second game of their trip to Chase Field last night, the Mets rebounded in the matinee, trouncing the Diamondbacks 7-1 in their season finale.
Kodai Senga had one of his best starts of the young season today, tossing six innings of scoreless ball, giving up just two hits while walking five and striking out four. It is rare that a performance that features five walks also features no runs scored, but sparkling defense and timely execution helped Senga escape without a blemish on his ledger this afternoon. With this performance, he lowered his season ERA to 1.16.
Merrill Kelly started for Arizona and kept the Mets off the board early, despite doubles from Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Lindor. But in the sixth Kelly faltered, allowing a Juan Soto solo home run to break the tie and put the Mets on the board.
In the seventh, the wheels came off for Kelly, allowing a double to Luis Torrens, who came around to score on a Luisangel Acuna single two batters later. Jeff McNeil then tripled, scoring Acuna but came into third limping. He would be pulled for Jose Azocar.
Max Kranick pitched the seventh and part of the eighth for the Mets and surrendered the only run of the day for the Mets’ pitching staff, a solo home run to Corbin Carroll. But by that point, Soto had homered again against reliever Jalen Beeks, so even after Carroll’s dinger, it was still 4-1 Mets. When Kranick started to falter, Huascar Brazoban came in to get the Mets through the eighth.
A pair of walks to Azocar and Tyrone Taylor put two on for Lindor, who doubled both home and then scored on a Soto sac fly to put the Mets up 7-1, the score they’d eventually win by. Ryne Stanek pitched a solo inning in relief to put the game in the books and send the Mets back to Queens happy.
After an off-day, the Mets welcome the Cubs into Citi Field this weekend. Clay Holmes and Jameson Taillon square off in the series opener.
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Mets vs Diamondbacks WPA Chart, 5/7/25
Big Mets winner: Kodai Senga, +37.1% WPA
Big Mets loser: Tyrone Taylor, -6.5% WPA
Mets pitchers: +44.0% WPA
Mets hitters: +6.0% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Juan Soto’s sixth inning home run, +16.9% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Corbin Carroll’s sixth inning single, – 6.3% WPA