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The Mets continue a three-game series with the Diamondbacks in Arizona on Tuesday at 9:40 p.m. on SNY.

Here's what to know about the game and how to watch...

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Mets Notes

• Pete Alonso has reached base safely in 17 consecutive games
• Juan Soto has a five-game hitting streak. He has reached base safely in nine straight games and 12 of his last 13
• Edwin Diazhas allowed just one earned run since April 11 -- a span of 8.1 innings over eight appearances
• David Petersonfaced the D-backs last week, allowing one run on five hits while walking none and striking out two over 5.0 innings

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Here's what happened in Mets Land on Monday, in case you missed it...

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• Pete Alonso cracked a two-run homer and Francisco Lindor blasted a three-run shot as the Mets beat the Diamondbacks, 5-4
• Lindor and Francisco Alvarez's incredible caught stealing in the ninth inning helped seal the win
• Alonso's homer was his ninth of the season. He's on pace to finish the year with 41 homers, 59 doubles, 149 RBI, 117 runs scored, and 113 walks to 108 strikeouts
• Jesse Winkeris expected to miss six-to-eight weeks due to an oblique injury
• A.J. Minter and Danny Young are both set for season-ending surgery
• With Winker out,Brett Baty was called up from Triple-A Syracuse
• Notes on Baty's role and the DH situation
• Nolan McLeanwas promoted to Triple-A Syracuse
• Could one of the Mets' top starting pitching prospects come up as a reliever?
• WATCH: Carlos Mendoza talks about Lindor and Alvarez's play
• WATCH: Lindor, Alonso, and Griffin Canning discuss the win

Two days, maybe three.

When Mookie Betts first came down with a stomach bug the week the Dodgers were scheduled to leave for their season-opening trip to Japan in March, that’s how long the team’s do-everything superstar initially thought he’d feel unwell.

“I thought it was just gonna be a little two-day sickness, and that was gonna be it,” Betts said. “Go to Japan. By the time you get there, probably have a day down. Then be fine by the day before the game.”

Looking back on what instead became a two-week ordeal that derailed his opening month to the season, Betts can do nothing but shake his head.

Entering this season, the 32-year-old former MVP was filled with excitement.

Read more:Hyeseong Kim shares joyful moment to remember with Shohei Ohtani in Dodgers' win

After a three-month cameo at shortstop last year, Betts was returning to the position on a full-time basis, confident that the strides he made this winter would lead to stark improvement after last season’s error-filled experiment.

Behind the scenes, Betts felt his swing was in a great place, too, setting high baseline marks in bat speed and quality of contact as he ramped up during spring camp.

“In spring training,” co-hitting coach Robert Van Scoyoc said, “he was in a great spot.”

Then, however, his stomach illness changed everything. And more than a month later, the after-effects have continued to linger.

For two weeks, Betts could hardly eat solid foods, failing to keep down the little he did consume. By the time opening day arrived, he had lost nearly 20 pounds — and much of the progress he made over the winter.

“I didn’t realize how coming back so much underweight would affect me even now,” Betts said. “Trying to do that 20 pounds lighter, I just created some really, really, really bad habits, man.”

Throughout his 12-year career, the consistency of Betts’ swing has been the bedrock of his offensive success. Given his wiry 5-foot-10 frame, and naturally below-average bat speed, he’s never had much margin for error or inefficiency in his hitting mechanics. If not for the robotic-like precision he possesses in the batter’s box, he would have never been a seven-time Silver Slugger, or the majors’ most undersized power threat.

“I’m not Shohei,” Betts said. “I can’t, unfortunately, not have my A-swing that day but still run into something and [have it] go over the fence or whatever. Even when I have my A-swing, if I don’t get it, it’s not gonna be a homer. If I don’t flush that ball in that gap, they’re gonna catch it.”

“And that,” Betts added, “is when I’m fully healthy.”

For much of April, he saw what happens when he’s not.

Though Betts long ago returned to full health, as well as his typical 180-pound playing weight, he has only recently started to look more like his old self again at the plate. Entering Tuesday, he was on an eight-game on-base streak. In five of them, he had multiple hits, including a double, a triple and his first home run in 13 games.

He’s not all the way back yet, still hitting just .266 on the season. What he bluntly described as a “garbage” opening month, in which batting average dipped as low as .230, remains a source of frustration, even as he has slowly started correcting some underlying issues.

“Mentally, it was challenging [for him],” Van Scoyoc siad. “Just feeling like he didn’t get the benefits of all the hard work [he put in during the offseason].”

In the midst of Betts’ slump, questions emerged about whether his move back to shortstop was having an impact on his bat; whether he could still be the same hitter while taking on a demanding defensive position.

In Betts’ view, however, shortstop has been a blessing, not a burden.

“I enjoy my process,” he said. “That’s the No. 1 thing,”

Read more:‘Couldn’t deliver.’ How Dodgers’ lacking lineup depth was exposed in loss to Braves

Recalibrating his swing amid wildly fluctuating weight, on the other hand, has been a more tedious process.

At first, the ill effects of Betts’ two-week illness were not immediately evident. He was sent home from the team’s Japan trip early. But he recovered in time to collect six hits, three of them home runs, during the Dodgers’ undefeated opening homestand.

By the middle of April, Betts was also back to his pre-illness playing weight, having worked with the Dodgers’ performance staff, as well as his own personal trainer and chef, to devise a bulked-up meal plan that maximized his intake of macronutrients.

“We didn’t go the Michael Phelps route,” joked major league development integration coach Brandon McDaniel, referencing the former Olympic swimmer’s notorious 10,000-calorie diet. “But [his weight] stabilized pretty well.”

In that interim period, though, Betts’ bat speed began to suffer. After averaging only 69 mph last year, which ranked in the 13th percentile among MLB hitters according to the league’s Statcast system, it dropped to almost 67 mph during the opening month of this season.

That didn’t come as a surprise to the Dodgers’ hitting coaches, even after Betts’ gain in that metric early on this spring.

“You’re not impacting the ball the same way you were,” the Dodgers’ other hitting coach, Aaron Bates, said, “because you don’t have the weight behind it.”

But as Betts made an effort to try and start swinging harder, all he did was create mechanical flaws he has since had to correct. The biggest issue “had to do with how his arms and hands load, and how that affects the rest of his body,” Van Scoyoc said.

Fixing it has been an uphill battle.

“At first, it was cool. When I first came back, I hit a couple homers. The habits didn’t creep all the way in,” Betts said. “But then they started creeping in. And that’s what you’ve seen here recently. The product of some really bad habits from being so light.”

Over 22 games from April 2-28, Betts performed nowhere near his eight-time All-Star standards. He batted .202 with just three doubles and one home run. He was swinging at the right pitches (he struck out just nine times in those 98 plate appearances), but managed little more than soft pop-ups and routine groundouts.

“He’s one of those guys that can’t really be that far off [in his mechanics],” Bates said. “When he’s synced up right, he’s one of the best in baseball. But being that he’s 180 pounds, he doesn’t have a lot of margin for error.”

Betts still produced in other ways. Defensively, he is top-10 among MLB shortstops in fielding percentage, defensive runs saved and outs above average.

But as the Dodgers endured a team-wide malaise that plagued them for much of April, Betts’ offensive struggles loomed as a prominent factor.

“Obviously the results haven’t been there,” Betts said. “I’ve been trying to get this bad habit out.”

This past week, it has seemingly started to happen.

Betts entered Tuesday with 12 hits and 10 RBIs during his last eight games. Manager Dave Roberts has noticed “more convicted swipes” in the batter’s box. His bat speed has also started to tick back toward his pre-illness levels.

Read more:Dustin May's struggles with his sweeper prove costly in Dodgers' loss to Braves

The Dodgers’ offense, not coincidentally, has improved right along with him — the club scoring 73 runs and hitting .329 as a team over its last nine games.

That’s why, as Betts discussed the state of his game during the Dodgers' trip this week, he didn’t sound defeated, nor resentful about his physical limitations.

He was looking past his opening month, and an illness that lasted longer than he ever expected.

“It’s hard to get lost in the results. It’s not a good place to be,” he said. “So I’m really trying to just get lost in the process and make sure I’m prepared.”

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

Francisco Lindor and Francisco Alvarez had their hands all over the Mets’ series opening victory in Arizona on Monday night. 

With the Mets leading by just one run in the top of the seventh, Alvarez led off the inning by busting it down the line to reach on an infield single -- he then hustled his way into scoring position on a Tyrone Taylor double. 

A few pitches later, Lindor demolished a three-run homer into the seats in right-center to provide New York with some insurance. 

And it certainly was needed, as Dedniel Núñez entered in the eighth and struggled in his season debut -- walking the bases loaded before being pulled for Reed Garrett, who allowed all three runners to score but limited the damage. 

Edwin Diaz then came on in the ninth looking to close out a one-run ballgame. 

The star closer allowed speedster Alex Thomas to reach on an infield single leading off the inning -- and he immediately looked to advance his way into scoring position, but the Francisco duo had other plans. 

Alvarez unleaded an absolute strike to Lindor, who made a tremendous short-hop pick and somehow nipped Thomas’ left shoe with the tag -- eliminating the baserunner after a review for a massive first out of the inning. 

FRANCISCO LINDOR WITH THE INCREDIBLE TAG FOR THE CAUGHT STEALING! pic.twitter.com/UVeZZVMXt0

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 6, 2025

“Just unreal,” Carlos Mendoza said. “Not an easy one overall. For Alvy not giving up after the runner gets a huge jump and for him just to finish the play, and then Lindor not only picking the baseball but sticking his nose in and applying the tag there -- pretty unbelievable.”

For Lindor, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing him come through with these types of heroics. 

But for the youngster Alvarez, it was a massive play at a massive time -- and Lindor was sure to give him credit, immediately pointing to him after he put together the fastest pop time on a throw to 2B in his career (H/T Sarah Langs).

“He’s been working at that for a while now,” Lindor said. “Him and [Glenn] Sherlock and [Luis] Torrens have been putting in the work and emphasizing the throws to be in that area. He wanted it -- you can tell he wanted to throw him out and I love that. 

“Defense wins ballgames. Defensive is a good way to be in the playoffs, so stuff like this gets me very excited.” 

The Mets defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 on Monday at Chase Field.

Here are some takeaways...

- Diamondbacks starter Ryne Nelson walked Juan Soto on four pitches during each of his first two at-bats. Pete Alonso wasn't able to make him pay for it his first time up, grounding into an inning-ending double play, but he did strike in the fourth, demolishing a 425 foot no-doubt two-run homer.

Alonso lined a ringing single a few innings later, as he put together another multi-hit showing. The big man is now hitting an incredible .349 with nine homers, 33 RBI, and a 1.143 OPS on the season. Soto walked twice and scorched a double ahead of Alonso's knock in the seventh, not missing a homer by much.

- Corbin Carroll's leadoff long ball was one of three hits Griffin Canning allowed on his fastball over the first two innings as he struggled a bit in the early going. He did well to limit the damage to just the one run, and then settled in nicely, putting together a 1-2-3 third with a pair of strikeouts.

Canning picked up another punch out in the fourth as he worked around a one out single while pitching with the lead for the first time. He had to work around two out trouble in the fifth, as back-to-back singles pushed a man into scoring position, but was able to get Ketel Marte to roll over to second.

The right-hander walked Pavin Smith on five pitches leading off the sixth, bringing his night to an end. Huascar Brazoban entered behind him and quickly generated a double play ball to close Canning's line with just the one run on one walk and six hits while striking out six.

Canning has now allowed one run or less in five of his seven outings -- getting him down to a 2.50 ERA on the season. He also became the first Mets starting pitcher since Zack Wheeler in 2018 to win five consecutive starts.

- Francisco Lindor helped give the Mets some breathing room in the top of the seventh, crushing a three-run homer inches away from the pool in right-center. He now has hits in each of his last four games and is batting .291 with seven home runs and 22 RBI out of the leadoff spot.

- That proved to be a huge knock for the Mets, as Dedniel Núñez got the ball in the eighth and struggled mightily in his season debut. He walked all three batters he faced, before being pulled for Reed Garrett, who allowed all three runners to score on a single and a double -- but was able to keep a one run advantage.

- Edwin Diaz was helped out by a massive caught stealing from Lindor and Francisco Alvarez to secure the save.

Game MVP: Francisco Lindor

Lindor's massive three-run homer ended up being the difference in the victory.

Highlights

Tyrone Taylor with his third triple of the season! pic.twitter.com/tE7oreaJLN

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 6, 2025

Griffin Canning strikes out two looking in the 3rd pic.twitter.com/tVGTEPbfjD

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 6, 2025

PETE ALONSO LAUNCHES ONE INTO ORBIT! 🚀 pic.twitter.com/mdbOIboqWV

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 6, 2025

Huascar Brazobán comes on in the 6th inning and gets a double play and a strikeout pic.twitter.com/Tida2VeLCf

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 6, 2025

FRANCISCO LINDOR 3-RUN SHOT! pic.twitter.com/WErcLk0dBB

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 6, 2025

Juan Soto rockets a 110.6 mph double off the wall 💥 pic.twitter.com/pUm8awlBmj

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 6, 2025

FRANCISCO LINDOR WITH THE INCREDIBLE TAG FOR THE CAUGHT STEALING! pic.twitter.com/UVeZZVMXt0

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 6, 2025

Whats next

David Peterson (2-1, 3.06 ERA) takes the ball against Zac Gallen (2-4, 4.93 ERA) as the Mets and D-backs continue this three-game set on Tuesday at 9:40 p.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — Manny Machado hit a two-run double and Xander Bogaerts followed with a two-run single in an eighth-inning comeback against Devin Williams and Luke Weaver, and the San Diego Padres rallied past the New York Yankees 4-3 on a soggy Monday night for their sixth straight win.

Carlos Rodón allowed three hits in 6 2/3 scoreless innings, leaving with a 3-0 lead.

San Diego loaded the bases with two walks and a hit off Williams, who had three hitless outings after being dropped as closer but faltered in his fourth. Weaver (0-1) gave up two-out hits to Machado and Bogaerts as the Yankees lost their third game in a row.

Padres manager Mike Shildt and Fernando Tatis Jr. were ejected during the rally by plate umpire Adrian Johnson. Tatis said something when he struck out swinging, a pitch after a called second strike at the bottom of the zone. Tossed for the 15th time in his managerial career, Shildt threw his lineup card and glasses while arguing.

Ryan Bergert (1-0) earned his first major league win with a hitless seventh and Robert Suarez struck out two in a perfect ninth for his major league-high 14th save.

The game started 28 minutes late because of rain and was interrupted by another 28-minute delay with two outs in the bottom of the fourth.

Trent Grisham matched his 2024 total with his ninth home run, a two-run drive in the third off Padres starter Nick Pivetta and Anthony Volpe hit a sacrifice fly for the Yankees after missing one game because of a left shoulder injury.

Cleanup hitters were 0 for 17 with six strikeouts against Pivetta this year before Paul Goldschmidt’s sixth-inning single.

Aaron Judge walked in the first, extending his on-base streak to 31 games. He went 0 for 3, ending a 14-game hitting streak that matched his career high and dropping his big league-leading batting average to .414.

Key moment

Weaver had not allowed a run in 13 previous outings this year when he entered.

Key stat

Rodón and Max Fried have combined to go 10-3 with a 2.03 ERA while other Yankees starters are 3-6 with a 6.02 ERA.

Up next

Padres RHP Michael King (4-1) starts Tuesday against his former team, and Clarke Schmidt (0-1) goes for New York.

The Dodgers’ biggest player waited for their smallest one in the visiting dugout at LoanDepot Park on Monday night.

There, in a moment of joy captured by television broadcast cameras, the two shared a celebratory mid-game embrace.

Like many Asian-born players of his generation, Hyeseong Kim has long looked up to Shohei Ohtani. At first it was from afar, Kim following the Japanese superstar closely while beginning his own career in the Korean Baseball Organization. Then, this winter, the pair became coincidental training partners, occasionally working out at the same Southern California facility together as Kim (who, like Ohtani, is represented by Creative Artists Agency) prepared for his own move to the major leagues.

Kim ultimately signed with the Dodgers, even though the speedy 5-foot-10 infielder likely could have secured more money and regular playing time elsewhere. One of the main appeals was the opportunity to play alongside Ohtani and the club’s collection of other big-name talent.

Read more:‘Couldn’t deliver.’ How Dodgers’ lacking lineup depth was exposed in loss to Braves

In the Dodgers’ 7-4 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday, Kim finally got that chance, sharing a starting lineup with Ohtani for the first time since being called up to the big leagues last week.

And during the top of the fifth inning, the two co-starred in a sequence that put the game out of reach — Kim collecting his first MLB hit on a leadoff single, before Ohtani launched a home run that made the score 5-0.

After Ohtani rounded the bases, Kim was the first to greet him, sharing a high-five near the on-deck circle. Back in the dugout, it was Ohtani’s turn to return the favor, putting his hands on his new teammate’s helmet while cracking a wide smile and jumping up and down.

"Even [though] he hit his home run, he celebrated for me, he gave me congratulations,” Kim said through interpreter Joe Lee, after going two for four with a stolen base. “It was a great honor."

"Just an amazing performance by Kim,” Ohtani said through his interpreter, Will Ireton. “Really good, just overall."

The Dodgers (24-11) had plenty of other contributors Monday, en route to winning their seventh game in the last eight.

They got two hits each from Freddie Freeman (including a third-inning home run, the 350th of his career), Mookie Betts (his fifth multi-hit game out of the last six), Andy Pages and Teoscar Hernández (who left the game early with left hamstring tightness).

They got four solid innings of bulk relief from Ben Casparius, the rookie right-hander who has been stretched out to compensate for the Dodgers' recent rotation injuries.

Even badly slumping outfielder Michael Conforto got in on the action, breaking a 30 at-bat hitless streak with a badly needed single in the sixth.

But all of it paled in comparison to Kim’s breakout performance. He got his first two career hits, his first career RBI and, most memorably, a brief but gleeful moment of recognition from the best player in the game.

"I would say I'm still not comfortable with him, because he's a big star,” Kim said of Ohtani with a laugh. “But he always asks questions, always talks to me. So that makes for a good adjustment and adapting."

Kim has had to do much adapting since signing his three-year, $12.5-million contract with the Dodgers in January. While the 26-year-old already possessed game-changing speed, and what other teammates described as potential Gold Glove-caliber defensive abilities, the transition to the high-velocity pitching he would face in the majors required a total overhaul of his swing.

Read more:Dodgers giving Korean rookie Hyeseong Kim every chance to succeed

The early results weren’t pretty. Kim looked overmatched at the plate while going six for 29 in Cactus League play. He didn’t make the cut for the Dodgers’ opening trip to Japan, and was sent to triple-A Oklahoma City for the start of the regular season.

But over the last month, Kim made quick progress with his mechanics. He added more pop by better incorporating his powerful lower half. He maintained his pre-existing contact ability (Kim was a .308 hitter during eight seasons in the KBO) while also hitting the ball with more consistent authority.

“He just used to pop up out of the ground [on each swing], so he couldn’t use the strength that he had,” co-hitting coach Robert Van Scoyoc said. “That was a big thing, but also just getting the overall swing more functional.”

Kim’s strides were significant enough that, when Tommy Edman went on the injured list with an ankle injury last week, the Dodgers felt comfortable summoning him for his first call-up.

Originally, the plan was to keep him around for a week, let him “cut his teeth,” as Roberts put it, in an MLB environment, then send him back to triple A to continue his development.

Read more:'Big brother, little brother.' How Teoscar Hernández, Andy Pages bond is helping Dodgers

But given the way Monday went, circumstances might be changing.

“For him to come in here, throw out a knock, get a couple hits, play good defense, it was just really exciting,” manager Dave Roberts said. “He just adds that spark to our ballclub.”

Drawn into the starting lineup to face Marlins starter Sandy Alcantara, a former Cy Young Award winner working his way back from a Tommy John surgery, Kim flashed all the tools that made him a coveted international free agent this winter.

He went the other way on both of his hits, following up his line drive in the fifth inning with a bloop RBI single in the sixth.

He stole his second base in as many nights, scampering to second two pitches before Ohtani went deep.

He also made what should have been a web gem, charging to field a slow-rolling grounder in the eighth inning before flipping a highlight-reel toss with his glove that Freeman dropped for an error at first base.

“He could be a nice little weapon,” Freeman said postgame, an impressed look on his face.

Hernández’s injury, which he suffered while making a running catch in the gap in the third inning, could pave the way for Kim to get a more extended stay in the big leagues. Hernández is scheduled for an MRI scan on Tuesday, but the Dodgers were already planning to fly another player to Miami in case he requires an IL stint.

In the meantime, Kim is expected to get a second consecutive start Tuesday. It could come in center field, a position he played regularly during his time in Oklahoma City to expand his versatility.

“Honestly, I just think everyone loves Hyeseong,” Roberts said. “Everyone’s pulling for him."

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

The Mets officially received some tough news on Monday, as Jesse Winker is expected to be sidelined for 6-to-8 weeks after suffering a Grade 2 oblique strain he suffered during Sunday’s doubleheader against the Cardinals. 

Winker was playing the field for the first time this season in Game 1 of the double dip, and he suffered the injury making a throw home trying to stop Nolan Arenado from scoring on a sacrifice fly. 

“Obliques are tricky, we’ll feel it here,” Carlos Mendoza said Monday. 

One area they’ll particularly feel it is in their designated hitter rotation -- where Winker has filled a little bit more than half of the at-bats thus far this season as part of a platoon with veteran Starling Marte.

Marte is expected to take on more playing time in his absence -- and he is in the lineup against the righty for Monday’s series opener in Arizona, but the skipper says the DH rotation will be fluid moving forward.

“We have options,” he said. “Marte will see time, but we have to take care of him too. [Mark] Vientos, [Brandon] Nimmo, some of those guys will some reps there as a DH -- there’s a lot of different ways I can go there.”

Another option set to rejoin the roster with Winker’s injury is Brett Baty, as first reported by SNY's Andy Martino.

Baty turned things around following a brutal start to the season -- hitting .333 with a .429 OBP over his last seven big-league games, but he was sent back down to Triple-A due to a roster crunch following Jeff McNeil’s return. 

The youngster missed the last couple games with Syracuse due to a toe injury, but he was able to go through a full workout each of the past two days and Mendoza expects him to be a player off the bench starting Monday. 

His role this time around will be similar to earlier this year. 

“It definitely helps having him back,” the skipper said. “He can play some second, some third, another lefty bat for us. That allows me to move some guys around not only when I’m writing out the lineup, but when we’re making in game moves as well.”