The Mets had one of their best offensive performances of their season, beating the Rockies 13-5. The win saw the Mets move to 42-24 on the year, and also saw the Mets complete both a series and season sweep of the aforementioned Rockies.
The offense was obviously the star of the show, but the pitching held up their end of the bargain as well. Tylor Megill had an extremely Tylor Megill start. He only went five innings despite getting eight runs of support, but also only surrendered three hits. He walked three batters, struck out five, gave up two runs, and basically ran out of gas after the fifth. Paul Blackburn had one of the funniest saves you will see in a Mets uniform this year, going four innings in relief, and not really looking good in the process. He gave up seven hits, walked one, struck out three, gave up three walks. He battled poor command of his breaking pitches, which is a side-effect of Coors Field, but the Mets offense gave him more than enough cushion to give the Mets their first four inning save since Brian Stokes in 2008. He is going to make for an awesome New York Mets/One Career Save answer on a 2027 Immaculate Grid.
Speaking of the offense, it was as good as you can imagine it would be for a 13 run, 17 hit performance. The only part of the lineup that was nonexistent, ironically, were the first two spots. Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo, and Luisangel Acuña (who pinch hit for Lindor due to his fractured pinky toe and the blowout) went a combined 1-12, with the only hit coming in the ninth inning by way of a Nimmo seeing eye single. Despite that, the bats were absolutely humming from the second inning on.
The 4-5-6 spots picked up the slack for the top two spots in the lineup. Juan Soto went 3-3 with three singles and three walks, Pete Alonso went 3-6 with two home runs and four RBI (passing David Wright for second place on the franchise home run list), and Jeff McNeil went 3-5 with two home runs and four RBI as well. Brett Baty and Francisco Alvarez pitched in home runs of their own, Ronny Mauricio and Tyrone Taylor did not join them in the home run parade, but they added to the hit tally.
Perhaps the most impressive part of the day was the Mets ability to get hits with runners in scoring position which, as anyone reading this would know, has been a borderline Sisyphean task for this particular Mets team despite them being one of the best teams in the league overall. Today, they went 5-13 with runners in scoring position, which perhaps is the start of positive regression on that front.
The win capped off a near perfect weekend for the Mets, as their sweep of the Rockies coincided with the second place Phillies being swept by the Pirates, moving the Mets division lead to 4.5 games in the early-ish part of the season.
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Big Mets winner: Jeff McNeil, +15.8% WPA
Big Mets loser: Brandon Nimmo, -7.8% WPA
Mets pitchers: +17.5% WPA
Mets hitters: +32.5% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Pete Alonso’s third inning home run, +9.5% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Jordan Beck’s double in the fifth, -5.1% WPA