{"id":623203,"date":"2026-03-14T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623203\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:42:24","slug":"carson-benge-keeps-making-his-mets-case-with-another-run-scoring-hit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623203\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Benge keeps making his Mets case with another run-scoring hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from Mets spring training on Friday:<\/p>\n<p>Steady Benge<\/p>\n<p>Carson Benge went 1-for-4 with an RBI single in the Mets\u2019 split squad 8-3 victory over the Nationals in West Palm Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Benge, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/10\/sports\/carson-benges-immediate-mets-future-shouldnt-be-up-for-debate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:attempting to win the starting right field job;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;attempting to win the starting right field job&quot;}\" class=\"link \">attempting to win the starting right field job<\/a>, owns an .858 OPS this spring.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Carson Benge hits an RBI single during the Mets\u2019 March 13 game. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/05c9e595a517850937b7a01ca529339d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Carson Benge hits an RBI single during the Mets\u2019 March 13 game. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>Hudson plunge<\/p>\n<p>Lefty reliever Bryan Hudson allowed two earned runs, two hits and one walk against the Nationals over two-thirds of an inning.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hudson is competing for a bullpen spot.<\/p>\n<p>Caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>Clay Holmes induced eight groundouts over five innings in his relief appearance against the Marlins in Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Peralta is scheduled to face the Astros in West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Mets spring training on Friday: Steady Benge Carson Benge went 1-for-4 with an RBI single in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,7584,5805,1712,6920,753,4,415,61,7965,414,71,4222,68637],"class_list":["post-623203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-bryan-hudson","tag-carson-benge","tag-clay-holmes","tag-fifth-inning","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-new-york-mets","tag-the-astros","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-west-palm-beach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116226644235356354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623203","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=623203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}