NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jared Young was plunked with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, sparking a five-run rally that lifted the New York Mets to a 6-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Young took a 90 mph slider off his right elbow by Alex Lange (0-4), who allowed five straight baserunners with two outs. Brett Baty chased Lange with a two-run single and Young scored on a wild pitch by Jose Cuas, who then allowed an RBI single to Francisco Alvarez.<\/p>\n
Brooks Raley (3-3) worked around Lane Thomas\u2019 double in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Rookie A.J. Ewing hit his first career leadoff homer, a 420-foot blast off opener Steven Cruz. Ewing is the fifth Mets player to hit a leadoff homer this season.<\/p>\n
Salvador Perez hit an RBI single and Carter Jensen had a run-scoring double for the Royals.<\/p>\n
Right fielder Tyler Tolbert went 0 for 3 one night after he finished 5 for 6 and tied the major league record with hits in 12 consecutive plate appearances. But the 28-year-old robbed Francisco Lindor of an RBI extra-base hit with a crashing catch into the wall to end the third.<\/p>\n
Cruz struck out two in one inning. Randy Dobnak followed by allowing three hits in 5 2\/3 scoreless innings \u2014 the longest scoreless outing by a Kansas City reliever since Mike Mayers tossed six scoreless innings against the St. Louis Cardinals on May 29, 2023.<\/p>\n
Mets starter Christian Scott allowed three hits and struck out five in five scoreless innings.<\/p>\n
The teams combined for 17 hits one night after they had 32 as the Royals overcame a five-run deficit in a 16-12 win.<\/p>\n
Royals RHP Michael Wacha (5-6, 3.45 ERA) opposes Mets LHP Sean Manaea (1-4, 5.16 ERA) in the series finale Thursday.<\/p>\n
This story was corrected to show Carter Jensen hit an RBI double instead of a single for the Royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jared Young was plunked with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, sparking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[12048,5,358,26,68701,1347,227,15622,15918,3540,101,5169,92627,4,1690,61,2548,4203,9500,9501,9496,9497,82856,22858,22859,13368,92571,373,6923,1907],"class_list":["post-746866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-alex-lange","tag-baseball","tag-brett-baty","tag-brooks-raley","tag-christian-scott-atunde-adjuah","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-jared-young","tag-jose-cuas","tag-lane-thomas","tag-mets","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mike-mayers","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-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-randy-dobnak","tag-royals-mets-score","tag-salvador-perez","tag-steven-cruz","tag-tyler-tolbert"],"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\/746866","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=746866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}