{"id":665421,"date":"2026-04-05T23:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665421\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:21:23","slug":"mets-rally-in-eighth-and-defeat-giants-in-three-straight-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665421\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets rally in eighth and defeat Giants in three straight games"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Consider the Mets\u2019 early April crisis officially over.<\/p>\n

On a weekend that began with them under .500 and watching Juan Soto limp off the field, the Mets rode their stellar rotation and a coterie of unsung bench heroes to ultimately take three straight from the Giants, finishing with Sunday\u2019s 5-2 comeback victory at Oracle Park.<\/p>\n

With the Mets down\u00a02-1\u00a0in the eighth, pinch hitter Luis Torrens worked lefty reliever Erik Miller for nine pitches, punching the last one for a two-run double that stayed inside the rightfield line by a few feet. Tyrone Taylor, the pinch hitter whose three-run homer broke open Saturday\u2019s 10-3 rout, scored the tying run after entering for Jorge Polanco, whose leadoff double got the rally started.<\/p>\n

Mark Vientos had two more hits, including an RBI single, bumping him up to 10-for-21 (.476) with a 1.236 OPS in six games this season. Marcus Semien added an RBI double in the eighth to put the Mets ahead,\u00a05-2.<\/p>\n

One under-the-radar move from that eight-inning rally: Luis Robert Jr.\u2019s steal of second base when the throw beat him easily thanks to a creative slide that dodged the tag.<\/p>\n

Devin Williams allowed a pair of hits in the ninth, but got a gift from Matt Chapman,\u00a0who was thrown out trying to steal second with Rafael Devers at the plate,\u00a0before sealing his second save.<\/p>\n

Jared Young, a last-minute lineup switch for Brett Baty, who was scratched Sunday because of\u00a0a jammed thumb from the previous night\u2019s win, went 3-for-3 before he was pulled in the eighth for the pinch-hitter Torrens. Young also made a great bullet throw from deep leftfield to cut down Jerar Encarnacion trying to stretch for a double in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n

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Kodai Senga followed up last Tuesday\u2019s debut with another impressive performance, taking a 1-0 edge into the sixth inning, when he got burned by some soft contact and ultimately gave up the lead on a pair of two-out hits. Patrick Bailey, the No. 9 batter, led off with a bloop single before the slow-footed catcher somehow stole second base. That teed up Matt Chapman, who hooked a ghost fork inside the leftfield line for the tying RBI double and Rafael Devers put the Giants ahead with a 75-mph blooper that just dropped in front of the diving Luis Robert Jr.,\u00a0ending Senga\u2019s afternoon.<\/p>\n

Up to that point, Senga had cruised as the Mets\u2019 offense stalled. He didn\u2019t allow a hit through three innings. He struck\u00a0out six,\u00a0four with his signature ghost fork. Luis Arraez singled to open the fourth, but was erased on a double play. The only other hit through five innings was an Encarnacion single that\u00a0Young\u2019s throw erased at second.<\/p>\n

It was Young, hitting fifth in the Soto-less lineup, who combined with Robert for back-to-back singles in the fifth inning before the scorching-hot Vientos put the Mets up\u00a01-0\u00a0with an RBI single of his own.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

\n\tDavid Lennon is an award-winning columnist, a voter for baseball’s Hall of Fame and has covered six no-hitters, including two perfect games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Consider the Mets\u2019 early April crisis officially over. On a weekend that began with them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,15605,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-665421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-gamer","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116354671988158722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665421","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=665421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}