{"id":321632,"date":"2025-09-17T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/321632\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:32:10","slug":"mets-blast-4-homers-off-king-en-route-to-8-3-win-over-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/321632\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets blast 4 homers off King en route to 8-3 win over Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 The Mets went homer-happy Tuesday night, launching four big flies off Padres starter Michael King on their way to a series-opening 8-3 win in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets offense tagged King with five runs in the first inning. Brett Baty capped the early rally with a towering two-run blast.<\/p>\n<p>King also gave up home runs to Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso, and Cedric Mullins in his three innings of work. He gave up a career-high eight runs and 10 hits in his short stint.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres\u2019 three runs came courtesy of solo homers from Jackson Merrill, Jake Cronenworth, and Freddy Fermin.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, San Diego maintained its hold of the second National League Wild Card spot and remained two games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West standings.<\/p>\n<p>Former Padre Sean Manaea got the win for New York, while King\u2019s record dropped to 4-3 with the loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres continue their road trip with games on Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon at Citi Field before heading to Chicago for a weekend series against the White Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 The Mets went homer-happy Tuesday night, launching four big flies off Padres starter Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,9017,87,4,43,47697,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-321632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-citi-field","10":"tag-michael-king","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-padres","13":"tag-padres-mets","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-padres","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115219893211032977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321632","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=321632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}