Mets Rally To Beat Orioles 7-6 in 10 Innings After Overcoming Four Run Deficit In One of the Best Wins of the Season

 

Mets RF Juan Soto (Photo Credits to SNY.TV)

The New York Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-6 tonight in 10 innings at Camden Yards and improved their record to 53-39.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the first five innings against RHP Brandon Young, but then came alive in the top of the sixth.

3B Ronny Maurico led off with a homer and 2B Brett Baty followed with a double.

LF Brandon Nimmo then Baty with a RBI double.

In the top of the eighth, Nimmo led off with a single and SS Francisco Lindor followed with a two-run homer.

RF Juan Soto then singled and 1B Pete Alonso followed with a two-run home to tie the game.

In the top of the tenth, Soto led off and drove in Lindor with the game-winning RBI single after Lindor started the inning off second as the ghost runner.

RHP Clay Holmes started out well with two scoreless innings, but in the bottom of the third walked CF Cedric Mullins with one out and two batters later, gave up a RBI single to 2B Jackson Holliday.

Holmes had a 1-2-3 bottom of the fourth and a scoreless bottom of the fifth, but then unraveled in the bottom of the sixth.

He hit Holliday on the leg on an 0-2 pitch leading off the inning and then gave up back-to-back singles to load the bases.

Holmes then gave up a two-run double to 1B Ryan O'Hearn and a two-run single to RF Ramon Laureano and was taken out.

Holmes's final line was 5.0 innings, seven hits, five runs, one walk and five strikeouts.

LHP Richard Lovelady came in next and picked up two outs and was taken out with runners on first and third.

LHP Alex Castillo followed in his ML debut and threw one pitch and then catcher Luis Torrens threw out Laureano trying to get back to third to end the inning.

Castillo stayed in for the bottom of the seventh and gave up a solo homer to Holliday.

RHP Reed Garrett came in next in the bottom of the eighth and threw a scoreless inning.

RHP Edwin Diaz came on in the bottom of the ninth and had a 1-2-3 inning to pick up his fourth win.

RHP Huasacar Brazoban came in next in the bottom of the tenth and closed it out with a 1-2-3 inning to pick up his second save.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Wednesday, July 9 at the Baltimore Orioles at 7:05 p.m.