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May 11, 2025; New York City, New York, USA; New York Mets starting pitcher Griffin Canning (46) delivers a pitch during the first inning against the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
FLUSHING, NY \u2013 The New York Mets<\/a> shattered a two-run stalemate with four runs in the eighth inning, rolling to a 6-2, Mother\u2019s Day victory over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field.<\/a><\/p>\n Francisco Lindor catalyzed the offensive surge with a leadoff solo shot in the eighth, crushing reliever Porter Hodges\u2019 3-1 offering into the home bullpen for his ninth homer of the year. Pete Alonso later added a double, coming around to score on Mark Vientos\u2019 RBI single.<\/p>\n Chicago handed the ball off to Gavin Hollowell, who was welcomed to the game with a two-run blast off the bat of Brandon Nimmo.\n<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of good at-bats,\u201d Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said after the game. \u201cIt starts with Lindor. Facing a tough righty there, gets in a good hitter\u2019s count, gets a breaking ball\u2026 and he hits it out of the ballpark. And then we continue to put together some good at-bats\u2026 We\u2019ve got a lot of guys that, when they\u2019re staying short and putting the barrel on baseballs, they can hit the ball out of the ballpark.\u201d<\/p>\n Mets starter Griffin Canning celebrated his 29th birthday with yet another stellar performance. The right-hander cruised through six innings, surrendering just one run, two hits, and a walk with five strikeouts. Canning\u2019s ERA is down to just 2.36 with a 1.26 WHIP through his first eight starts of the year (42.0 innings).<\/p>\n Before blowing out the candles on his cake, Canning blew a fastball by Pete Crow-Armstrong to strike out the leadoff man. The right-hander then fooled Kyle Tucker and Seiya Suzuki with his changeup, fanning the first three Cubs he faced.<\/p>\n Facing a two-strike count with two away in the bottom of the second inning, Starling Marte advanced to first after getting clipped by Matthew Boyd\u2019s inside slider. Luis Torrens followed it up with an RBI triple off the left-center field wall, giving New York an early 1-0 advantage.<\/p>\n After retiring ten batters in a row, Canning finally got caught once the order turned over for a third time in the top of the sixth. Crow-Armstrong, who had struck out in his first two trips, belted a one-out, solo homer to the second deck in right field that knotted the game up at one run apiece.<\/p>\n Torrens exited the game one batter later after taking a foul ball to the groin, and Francisco Alvarez took over behind the dish. Mendoza assured reporters that the backstop was feeling much better after the game.<\/p>\n The Mets fired back in the home half of the sixth. After Juan Soto and Pete went down swinging, Vientos pounced on the first pitch he saw, launching Boyd\u2019s four-seamer into the left field seats for his fifth homer of the year and a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n New York summoned Reed Garrett from the bullpen in the top of the seventh. The right-handed reliever surrendered a leadoff walk to Michael Busch, who circled back home on an RBI double from Nico Hoerner.<\/p>\n The Mets (26-15, 1st in NL East) took two out of three against the Cubs, and will kick off a three-game set against Paul Skenes and the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night (7:10 p.m. ET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 11, 2025; New York City, New York, USA; New York Mets starting pitcher Griffin Canning (46) delivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,226,138,24,4245,9017,161,227,98,2335,5214,228,101,4,9018,61,7439,74,9019],"class_list":{"0":"post-19262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brandon-nimmo","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-citi-field","14":"tag-cubs","15":"tag-francisco-lindor","16":"tag-griffin-canning","17":"tag-home-run","18":"tag-luis-torrens","19":"tag-mark-vientos","20":"tag-mets","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-motheru2019s-day-game","23":"tag-new-york-mets","24":"tag-nl-east","25":"tag-pete-alonso","26":"tag-reed-garrett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114490828100903123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}