SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Carson Benge went 5 for 5 with a home run and an RBI triple, leading the New York Mets to a 7-3 victory Sunday over the struggling San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n
Marcus Semien and MJ Melendez also homered for the last-place Mets, who took two of three games from the Padres to win a series in San Diego for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n
Sean Manaea (1-1) allowed two runs over four innings in bulk relief as New York used six pitchers and finished 3-3 on its West Coast trip.<\/p>\n
Freddy Fermin homered and drove in all three runs for the Padres, who have lost 11 of 13. The catcher was hitless in his previous 30 at-bats before connecting for his first homer this season Saturday night, a two-run shot in the seventh inning of a 3-2 win that stopped San Diego’s six-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Batting leadoff, Benge scored three times and became the fourth Mets rookie with five hits and a homer in one game. Francisco Lindor was the previous New York player to get five hits in a game when he went 5 for 5 with a homer and two triples in a 9-0 victory at Arizona on July 6, 2023.<\/p>\n
San Diego starter Randy V\u00e1squez (5-4) gave up four runs, eight hits and two walks in four-plus innings. It was his third loss in four decisions.<\/p>\n
New York scored twice in the fifth for a 4-0 cushion. Jared Young had an RBI single and Bo Bichette scored on A.J. Ewing\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Melendez and Benge went deep in the sixth for a 6-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Semien’s eighth homer this year, a solo shot in the second, made it 2-0. It was Semien\u2019s third of the road trip and second in the series.<\/p>\n
The Mets return home Tuesday, when RHP Freddy Peralta (4-4, 3.63 ERA) pitches against Cardinals RHP Dustin May (3-6, 4.59).<\/p>\n
Padres RHP Walker Buehler (3-3, 4.53 ERA) faces Reds LHP Andrew Abbott (4-3, 4.06) on Monday in San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Carson Benge went 5 for 5 with a home run and an RBI triple,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[2001,5,88,5805,126,227,2127,753,15622,386,101,90072,8532,4,1690,61,2548,4203,9500,9501,9496,9497,39138,22857,22858,22859,7940,137,1268,115],"class_list":["post-720390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-andrew-abbott","tag-baseball","tag-bo-bichette","tag-carson-benge","tag-dustin-may","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-freddy-fermin","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-jared-young","tag-marcus-semien","tag-mets","tag-mets-padres-score-benge","tag-mj-melendez","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40800-ap-new-jersey-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-randy-vasquez","tag-san-diego","tag-sean-manaea","tag-walker-buehler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720390","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=720390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}