The balance that has been lacking from this Mets lineup for most of the season has surfaced over the past three days.
Whether it’s been Juan Soto or Mark Vientos providing a jolt, timely Jared Young contributions or a Carson Benge hit barrage, the Mets’ chief weakness, an underwhelming lineup, has appeared respectable.
Sustainability is the question.
On Saturday, they received contributions from just about all comers in a 6-1 victory over the Marlins at Citi Field, culminating a day in which Bobby Valentine and Lee Mazzilli were inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame.
The Mets won their third straight.
In getting swept three games last weekend in Miami, the Mets managed only 11 hits.
On this day they totaled 10 and built from a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning.
“You continue to trust your players that at some point they are going to come through,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “It’s good to see guys like Vientos having good back-to-back games and when he’s on, he can carry us. It’s just good to see some of the guys here playing with some confidence, playing loose, having fun and picking each other up.”
Christian Scott earned his first major league win by limiting the Marlins to one earned run on five hits and two walks with eight strikeouts over five innings.
The right-hander pitched 5 ²/₃ scoreless innings in his start in Miami last Sunday.
Scott began the day 0-3 in his career with 12 no-decisions.
“It took longer than I would have expected and wanted,” said Scott, who has pitched to a 2.97 ERA in his seven starts this season. “I thought the defense played great today and [Hayden] Senger called a hell of a game. The offense stepped up with a couple of big swings.”
Scott’s strikeout total matched a career high and he’s the only pitcher in franchise history to allow four earned runs or fewer in each of his first 16 career starts.
Scott missed last season rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.
“He’s important,” Mendoza said. “Especially with some of the injuries we’re dealing with, but we saw signs of that in 2024, I am not surprised by it, but if we can get that version and I am pretty confident that we will, that’s another factor for us to turn this thing around, right there. He’s too talented. He’s got electric stuff and he’s going to continue to help us.”
Vientos’ two-run double in the fourth gave the Mets a 2-0 lead.
It was a second straight game with a loud hit from Vientos, who mashed a 445-foot homer on Friday — the second-longest blast of his major league career.
Marcus Semien delivered a two-out RBI single that widened the Marlins’ deficit to 3-0.
The Mets started the rally in the inning with a walk to Juan Soto before Young’s single.
Vientos followed with his shot off the left-field fence.
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Scott walked Christopher Morel leading off the fifth and paid for it: Liam Hicks stroked an RBI single with two outs that pulled the Marlins to within 3-1.
Scott escaped the inning with help from A.J. Ewing, who raced into the right-center gap to rob Otto Lopez of an extra-base hit.
Cionel Pérez, in his Mets debut, worked a perfect sixth inning.
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The lefty was selected to the roster after the Mets, needing an additional fresh arm, optioned Tobias Myers to Triple-A Syracuse.
Young homered leading off the bottom of the sixth, extending the Mets’ lead to 4-1.
It was the first blast of season for Young, who returned from knee surgery rehab Tuesday.
Senger’s first major league homer, a blast in the seventh, widened the Mets’ lead to 5-1 before Soto’s single brought in another.
“I felt like it was [gone],” Senger said when asked if he knew it was a homer off the bat. “But then I remembered the wind and started running and begging for it to go. I was begging when I was rounding first.”
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