Ronny Mauricio (4 hits), Mets sweep sequence at Giants

Ronny Mauricio and Juan Soto homered within the seventh inning to tie and untied a seesaw affair, reliever Gregory Soto made a splashy debut for his new staff and the New York Mets accomplished a three-game highway sweep of the San Francisco Giants with a 5-3 victory on Sunday night time.

Matt Chapman homered twice for the Giants, who trailed each 1-0 and 2-1 early on however later took a 3-2 lead into the seventh.

Mauricio, who earlier had singled, doubled and pushed in a run, greeted All-Star reliever Randy Rodriguez (3-2) with a second-pitch residence run to attract the Mets even at 3-3. The homer was Mauricio’s fifth of the season.

Rodriguez then struck out Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Lindor, earlier than lefty Juan Soto went the opposite method with a solo shot, his twenty fifth, to present the Mets the lead for good.

Acquired Friday from the Baltimore Orioles, Gregory Soto was handed the ball for his Mets debut within the final of the seventh and responded with a 1-2-3 run by the highest of the Giants’ order, hanging out Heliot Ramos and getting two groundouts.

The Giants stranded a pair within the eighth, then, down by two, loaded the bases with one out within the ninth towards Edwin Diaz earlier than the Mets nearer struck out Willy Adames and Chapman to shut out his twenty third save and New York’s seventh straight win.

Mauricio’s fourth hit, one other double, mixed with a following double by Nimmo to present the Mets their insurance coverage run within the prime of the ninth. The four-hit and two-doubles efforts had been the primary of Mauricio’s profession.

Chapman drove in all three runs for the Giants together with his two homers, Nos. 15 and 16 on the yr. His first drew the hosts even at 1-1 within the fourth, earlier than his second, a two-run shot, gave the Giants their 3-2 lead within the fifth.

Each homers got here off Mets starter Kodai Senga, who allowed three runs and 4 hits in 5 innings. He walked 5 and struck out three.

Jose Butto (3-1), who pitched a scoreless sixth, was credited with the win.

San Francisco used seven pitchers in a bullpen sport. Left-hander Matt Gage made essentially the most of his opening function, taking down the Mets 1-2-3 within the first in his first main league begin in 26 profession video games with 4 completely different groups since 2022.

Francisco Alvarez had two hits and scored twice for the Mets, who out-hit the Giants 12-6. Jeff McNeil and Starling Marte additionally had a pair of hits.

Adames had two hits for the Giants, who went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring place to complete the sequence 0-for-23.

–Subject Stage Media