Mets Beat Braves 7-1 Powered By Two Homers From Juan Soto

 

Mets RF Juan Soto (Photo Credits to Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images)

The New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 7-1 tonight at Citi Field to snap their two-game losing streak and improved their record to 47-34.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the first two innings until the bottom of the third after ,B Ronny Mauricio hit a solo homer.

In the bottom of the fourth, RF Juan Soto led off with a solo homer of his own.

1B Pete Alonso followed with a hit by pitch and CF Jeff McNeil then doubled.

DH Starling Marte drove in Alonso with a sacrifice fly.

3B Brett Baty, Mauricio and catcher Hayden Senger all followed with singles to load the bases.

SS Francisco Lindor then hit a sacrifice fly to score Baty and LF Brandon Nimmo drove in Mauricio with a RBI single.

In the bottom of the seventh, Soto led off with another homer. It is the 27th multi-homer game of his career which is the most of any player before age 27 passing Jimmie Foxx. Soto has now hit 10 homers in June.

RHP Clay Holmes worked around two walks in the first two innings and started out with three scoreless innings until he gave up a solo homer to catcher Drake Baldwin in the top of the fourth.

Holmes had a scoreless top of the fifth and was then taken out.

His final line was five innings, three hits, one run, four walks and two strikeouts.

He picked up his eighth win and lowered his ERA to 2.97.

LHP Brandon Waddell followed with a scoreless top of the sixth.

RHP Jose Butto threw a scoreless top of the seventh.

RHP Ryne Stanek threw a scoreless top of the eighth.

RHP Jonathan Pintaro made his ML debut in the top of the ninth and struggled allowing two runs on two hits with two walks in 0.2 innings and then came out.

RHP Edwin Diaz came on and picked up the last out of the game for his 16th save of the season.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Thursday, June 26 at home against the Braves at 7:10 p.m.