When Angels closer Kenley Jansen induced a groundout from J.P. Crawford to end Friday night’s contest, he made sure to keep the ball.

In the Angels' clubhouse after a 5-4 win over the Seattle Mariners, Jansen handed the ball to Kyle Hendricks. It was Hendricks' to keep after he earned his 100th career victory.

Hendricks didn't pitch his best game. The right-hander gave up eight hits and four earned runs along with two strikeouts and two walks over six innings. Still, his milestone capped one of the Angels' better wins — an all-around team effort spearheaded by veteran players.

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“I hate it being about me, so I appreciated keeping [the postgame celebration] short,” said Hendricks, who won 97 of his 100 games with the Chicago Cubs. [Manager Ron Washington] just said a couple words, and the guys pointed out Kenley keeping the last ball for me, handing it over. Just really cool and hugs all around.”

Clyde Wright, ninth on the Angels' all-time wins list and Hendricks' pitching coach during his teenage years in South Orange County, was at Angel Stadium on Friday. Wright, who ended his career with 100 wins, congratulated Hendricks in the clubhouse.

“I told him, I only took 23 years after our first lesson — 12-year-old, first lesson — and now, finally tied him,” Hendricks said.

Hendricks said he has built a solid bond with battery mate Travis d’Arnaud in recent starts.

“Really catching a groove, really learned me, and it's just making things so much easier for me,” Hendricks said of d'Arnaud. “So I can't thank him enough.”

Being part of Hendricks' 100th win was "very special" for d'Arnaud, who also caught Charlie Morton's 100th win with Atlanta in 2021.

“I'm very thankful and grateful that I was a part of it, and not only to be a part of it behind the plate, but also to help contribute at the plate,” d’Arnaud said.

Offensively, it was one of the newest Angels who helped lead them to victory.

Chris Taylor hadn’t done much at the plate since the Angels signed him nearly two weeks ago. Friday night at Angel Stadium, the former Dodgers utilityman put together his best game for the Angels so far — going two for three with a tying RBI double in his first multi-hit performance of the season (his first in the regular season since Sept. 28).

“That's obviously the best game I've had in a minute,” Taylor said. “Just to hit the ball hard and drive in a run — do some things to help a team win, felt good.”

Taylor also scored the decisive run in the fifth inning on a single from Nolan Schanuel. Even Taylor’s one out was loud. In the bottom of the sixth, Seattle center fielder Julio Rodríguez robbed Taylor of a two-run home run to dead center field.

In his first plate appearance in the third, Taylor scored on a single from Zach Neto to tie the score 1-1. After the Mariners retook the lead in the fourth, d'Arnaud tied the game again with a two-run home run in the bottom of the inning.

The Angels put together one of their better performances at the plate. They combined for seven hits and struck out just seven times. With their third win in four games, the Angels (29-33) are three games back of second-place Seattle (32-30) and 5½ games behind AL West-leading Houston (35-28).

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Ryan Zeferjahn and Reid Detmers pitched a scoreless seventh and eighth, respectively, and Jansen tossed a scoreless ninth for his 13th save. Detmers hasn’t given up a run — across eight appearances — since May 17.

For Washington, Hendricks getting his 100th win was the cherry on top of a win over a division rival.

“I talk about two things, presence and performance,” Washington said. “[Hendricks'] presence is always around. And when he's performing, you see him giving everything he has. Well deserved.”

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Jazz Chisholm Jr.returned from a month on the shelf in a new position in the Yankees' infield. But while he had to find his footing at third base, he has had no trouble raking in the batter's box.

In his first four games, Chisholm is 8-for-16 with two home runs and six RBI after a three-hit, four-RBI Friday night in New York’s 9-6 win over the Boston Red Sox.

What’s been working for him? “Seventy percent,” Chisholm said. “Just go at 70 percent, that’s what’s been working for me.”

“I don’t know, it works,” he said with a shrug of his shoulders and a laugh. “I don’t know what to tell you. To play at 70 percent: defense, offense, running, everything. Stay healthy. You don’t overswing, you don’t swing and miss as much, you’re a great player at 70 percent.”

Chisholm said that the suggestion came from hitting coach Pat Roessler and that he was hitting .171 at 100 percent, “so we’re gonna take 70 percent.”

“I’ve really heard that all my life I need to tone down on the way I play,” he said. “Because it’s really over… It’s electric, but it’s like you can be electric while being in control at the same time.”

But taking his foot off the gas is “super challenging" for the 27-year-old. “The only thing I knew is how to go fast,” Chisholm said. “Basically, I was Ricky Bobby growing up. And that’s all I knew was just play at 100 percent, go at 100 percent, swing at 100 percent, throw at 100 percent. 

“Even if you’re being flashy or anything like that. In order for you to be a flashy player, you gotta be able to go at 100 percent. You just can’t be out there being lackadaisical and be flashy because and then you’re never gonna make any of the plays, you gotta be at top peak to make those plays.”

It is about staying fundamentally sound at 70 percent, a level he still feels he can be a pretty good baseball player. And part of that is taking a basehit up the middle on a changeup, which he did his second time up Friday, a pitch he likely would have pulled foul trying to hit a home run on earlier in the year.

"It's really a mindset thing," Chisholm said. "Even on the home run, I was trying to hit a line drive to center field base hit. I wasn't even trying to hit a home run. I was really trying to dunk one into center field. And it ended up shooting off my bat and getting over the fence, that's why I was so hyped coming around first base. It really hit me, like 70 percent really is enough to be a great baseball player here."

He means no disrespect or to give the impression he is coasting, but just calming himself down.

But even at that level, his play is noticeable. “Electric. I think that’s the only way to describe Jazz,” Friday’s starting pitcher, Will Warren, said. 

“He’s squaring balls up,” manager Aaron Boone said. “He’s got so much talent and power, and he doesn’t have to go reach for it. That kinda wiry thing inside him, he doesn’t have to work too hard to generate it. 

“So, nice and easy is always good for Jazz.”

Chisholm said that they were looking at his swing during his minor league rehab assignment and seeing it as “so effortless.” When they asked him how it felt when he was having success, he said it felt just like that.

“It felt like I was hitting home runs effortlessly, and I was hitting doubles and swinging as effortlessly as I could,” he said. “First game back, I think I got one fastball all game and, effortless swing, hit a homer. Came in [Thursday], did the same thing, three hits. Just keep on doing it.”

He added: “When you believe in something and it feels so right, you can’t go wrong with it.”

The revolving door on the pitcher’s mound continues to spin for the Dodgers, who called Justin Wrobleski up from the minors to start Friday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

There’s a good chance Wrobleski will be on his way back to the minors by the start of Saturday’s game.

In between he pitched six innings in a 5-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Dodgers’ fourth loss in six games and their 11th loss in 20 games dating to May 16.

“I wouldn’t say, a problem,” manager Dave Roberts, who has used 13 different starting pitchers through 64 games, said of the revolving door. “It's certainly not ideal.”

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Nor is it unusual for the Dodgers, who used 17 starters and 40 pitchers overall last season when they won the World Series. But that door is certainly spinning faster than it did last year with the Dodgers using 11 different starters before May 1.

The Dodgers’ bullpen leads the majors in innings pitched while their starters have thrown the second-fewest innings because of injuries.

The Dodgers have 15 pitchers on the injured list, among them Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki and Tyler Glasnow. Including bonuses, the Dodgers will pay the three pitchers more than $100 million combined this season. So far, that has bought them 15 starts.

In their absence, Wrobleski, Landon Knack and Jack Dreyer have made a combined 12 starts; none of them will make more than $800,000.

And it’s not just pitchers: The Dodgers have made 18 transactions in June and the month is just a week old, creating a constant shuffle between the majors and triple-A Oklahoma City that could disrupt Dodgers’ locker room chemistry.

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Roberts, however, said he’s not worried.

“It's part of the culture nowadays in the major leagues, as far as kind of having optionable players and kind of having guys in and out of clubhouses,” he said. ”For our particular club, the core is still the core. But certainly on the periphery or the ancillary players that kind of go up and down, they're kind of in and out, which is not easy for them.”

To combat that, Roberts said his coaches try to make sure the players feel comfortable during their stays, which can sometimes last less than 24 hours.

“It's still not easy when you're here for a couple days and then you're out, then you're back,” Roberts said.

Wrobleski (1-2), who made his second start of the season, agreed.

“Obviously, it's a challenge,” he said. “But at the end of the day, I kind of know how this works and I know that my next start is not guaranteed to always be in one place or another. I wouldn't say it's an excuse. I haven't pitched great up here.

“It's definitely hard. But at the end of the day, you have to be ready to pitch whenever you're called upon, no matter where you're at. That's kind of my mentality and wherever I'm at, I'm just going to continue to try to get better and continue improving.”

In a game delayed 77 minutes by rain, Wrobleski was undone by a pair of two-out pitches. The first was hit into the left-field stands by Pedro Pages for a two-run home run in the second inning. Brendan Donovan lined the other up the middle in the fifth to score two runners, both of whom reached on walks.

Willson Contreras accounted for the final run with an eighth-inning solo homer off reliever Chris Stratton.

But if injuries have crippled the Dodgers’ pitching, the offense simply crumbled Friday. They stranded nine runners, were one for 13 with runners in scoring position and struck out nine times. So while they lead the majors in runs, batting average and homer runs, they’re hitting just .228 in June.

All of which makes the absence of infielder Hyeseong Kim from the starting lineup all the more baffling. Kim, who is hitting .404/.436/.558 in 24 games, has just seven at-bats in June.

“I wish every time somebody got on base, we could get a hit and score,” said Mookie Betts, who had three of the Dodgers’ 10 hits. “I really wish every time runners are in scoring position, we could get those timely hits. But that's not how the game works.

“The game is going to go through its ebbs and flows. You have to just kind of ride the wave. You can't jump off.”

But you can’t get stuck in a revolving door either.

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Francisco Lindor, on a fractured pinky toe, came up to the plate as a pinch-hitter to break a ninth-inning tie and lift the Mets to a 4-2 win over the Rockies on Friday night in Colorado.

With the score tied at 2-2, and runners at the corners with two outs, Lindor came up as a pinch-hitter for Tyrone Taylor. Lindor turned on a cutter running in on him and pulled down the right field line to drive in Juan Soto from third and Pete Alonso from first, who made an incredible slide to avoid the tag at home.

The Mets (40-24) have now won all four games against the Rockies (12-51) this season.

Here are the takeaways...

-The Rockies used an opener for the first time this season to help Antonio Senzatela pitch around his first-inning struggles -- he's pitched to a 12.00 ERA in the first inning this season. And it's seemingly worked thanks to the Mets' continued futility with runners in scoring position. The Mets left five runners on base in the first three innings, with Alonso (strikeout) and Jeff McNeil (flyout) unable to get a run across in the third inning with runners on first and second and one out.

The biggest missed opportunity came in the sixth when the Mets loaded the bases with no outs on two walks (both by Senzatela before he was replaced) and a hit-by-pitch. However, Brett Baty, Francisco Alvarez and Ronny Mauricio all struck out without scoring a run -- with a little help from a wide strikezone.

Alonso would make up for his earlier struggles in the seventh. After back-to-back one-out singles by Starling Marte and Soto, Alonso hit a double in the gap to drive in two runs and put the Mets in front, 2-1. Before that hit, the Mets were 0-for-8 with RISP.

-Mauricio started at shortstop for the first time this season afterLindor was held out of the lineup for a second straight game. The young infielder broke a 0-for-11 hitless streak to begin his season with a booming double off the wall (409 feet) in the eighth with two outs, but he was stranded. According to Statcast, the double would have gone out in 29 ballparks.

-Kodai Senga made his Coors Field debut on Friday and after two clean innings, he pitched into trouble in the third. Mickey Moniak hit a first-pitch sweeper 390 feet over the right-field wall to put the Rockies up 1-0. Senga allowed a double and a walk with one out to set up the Rockies for more runs, but he got Thairo Estrada to ground into a 5-4-3 doubleplay to end the frame.

Rockies shortstop Ezequiel Tovar was placed on the IL earlier this week and called up Ryan Ritter, who started Friday. In his second at-bat, the speedy infielder drove a triple into left-center field to lead off the fifth. After Senga picks up a strikeout, Moniak hit a slow roller that Alonso charged and threw off-balance to home. Francisco Alvarez grabbed it and tagged Ritter, who was running on contact, to preserve the 1-0 deficit.

Senga has stretches of dominance but otherwise got through six innings, throwing a career-high 109 pitches (67 strikes), allowing just one run on five hits, two walks while striking out six batters.

-In relief of Senga, Huascar Brazoban started the seventh. The veteran right-hander gave up a one-out triple that came in on a Moniak single to tie the game at 2-2. Moniak tried to stretch it into a double, but Soto gunned him down. Brazoban has given up a run in four of his last six appearances.

Ryne Stanek was on for the eighth and allowed a leadoff single to Jordan Beck and then Estrada lined a double to right field that Soto bobbled. Beck was heading home, but the Rockies' third base coach put the stop sign on him. Estrada was almost at third when Beck went back, but no one was covering second, so the Rockies avoided running out of a big inning. After Stanek walked the bases loaded with no outs for Ryan McMahon. McMahon lined it at Baty, but the young third baseman caught it on a line and tagged Beck before he could go back to third for the unassisted double play. Stanek then struck out Brenton Doyle swinging on a slider down in the zone to get out of the inning.

Edwin Diaz sat down the Rockies 1-2-3 in the ninth to pick up his 14th save of the season.

-Soto went 3-for-4 with a walk, his first three-hit game as a Met.

Alonso finished 1-for-3 with two walks. Alonso now has an MLB-high 57 RBI on the season and has 14 RBI in six games this month. The Mets went 2-for-15 with RISP and left 12 men on base, but both hits were the difference in this game. Alonso is hitting .358 with RISP this season while the rest of the team is hitting below .200.

Game MVP: Francisco Lindor

When the Mets needed him, Lindor got it done on nine toes.

Highlights

Francisco Alvarez cleanly fields the pick and throws out the runner trying to steal! pic.twitter.com/T5CtK13vul

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 7, 2025

After review, Pete Alonso throws out Ryan Ritter trying to score! pic.twitter.com/J5BpfiV6yX

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 7, 2025

PETE ALONSO COMES THROUGH!

2-RUN DOUBLE! pic.twitter.com/Yx6qPjnMjD

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 7, 2025

Ronny Mauricio gets his first hit of the year - a double in the 8th inning pic.twitter.com/MjdcfYiPQa

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 7, 2025

BRETT BATY INSTINCTS!

AN UNASSISTED DOUBLE PLAY! pic.twitter.com/RnRs2owS0r

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 7, 2025

HE STRUCK HIM OUT!!!!

RYNE STANEK ESCAPES THE BASES LOADED NO OUT JAM! pic.twitter.com/h12SNFIRG0

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 7, 2025

FRANCISCO LINDOR PINCH-HIT 2-RUN DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND PETE ALONSO WHAT A SLIDE! pic.twitter.com/lc8jCIyRSU

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 7, 2025

What's next

The Mets and Rockies continue their three-game set on Saturday night. First pitch is set for 9:40 p.m.

Clay Holmes (6-3, 3.07 ERA) will take the mound while Carson Palmquist (0-4, 8.50 ERA) will be on the bump for Colorado.

The Yankees scored seven runs in the first two innings, including home runs from Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Anthony Volpe,and got three hits from Aaron Judge in a 9-6 win over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night in The Bronx.

New York scored eight of its nine runs with two outs and had the chances for a lot more, leaving 10 runners on base and going 3-for-15 with runners in scoring position through seven frames. And that left the door open for Boston to chisel a seven-run deficit down to three entering the eighth. But the bullpen combined to get the final six outs on 24 pitches, allowing just two base runners.

The Yankees improved to 39-23 on the year and dropped the Red Sox to 30-35.

Here are the takeaways...

-  Ahead of the game, manager Aaron Boone said the key for his batters was to let Red Sox Starter Walker Buehler work the edges, but “get him on the plate and hit our pitches.”

The Yanks did that in the first as Judge laced a hustle double into the left-center gap (113.2 mph off the bat) to put runners at second and third after Trent Grisham’s leadoff walk. Cody Bellinger smashed a fastball (103.7 mph) but right at Boston's shortstop for the first out, before Paul Goldschmidt was caught looking on a ball that looked just off the outside corner.

Chisholm Jr. cashed in, smoking a low knuckle curve 417 feet to center for a three-run homer. The 105.8 mph shot hit the top of the wall and kicked over. After Jasson Dominguez smacked a single (104 mph) to right, Volpe got a 2-1 fastball out over the plate and barreled it (101.8 mph) for a 369-foot opposite-field blast for a 5-0 first-inning advantage.

- After Judge cracked a one-out single in the second, Goldschmidt reached on a two-out error on a throw from third baseman Marcelo Mayer, the Red Sox's 56th defensive miscue through 65 games. Chisholm notched his fourth two-out RBI of the game by muscling a jam shot over the first baseman's head for a single.

After Dominguez walked to load the bases, Volpe was hit on the left elbow on a 2-2 pitch to bring home another run. The shortstop got a long look from the training staff, and stayed in the game to run. (But he was lifted for the top of the fourth with a left elbow contusion.) Austin Wells’ bat shattered with a first-pitch slider off his hands, and the soft pop-up was grabbed by a charging, tumbling Trevor Story from short to leave ‘em loaded.

Bueheler lasted just six outs, allowing seven hits, two walks, and a HBP, keeping the damage to just seven runs (five earned) by stranding four on base and holding the Yanks to 2-for-6 with RISP.

- Judge notched his third hit of the night with a two-out single, scoring Wells from second. A better throw from Jarren Duran would have had the runner, but the throw hit Wells in the back, allowing Judge to grab his 51st RBI of the year.

- Will Warren got shelled early in his last start, allowing seven runs and recording just four outs. Friday was different: After a 25-minute rain delay pushed back the start, the right-hander wasted no time with a 12-pitch 1-2-3 first with two strikeouts. “He’s a confident kid and in a good spot,” Boone said ahead of the game. “He’s had his bumps in the road along the way, a lot of those early and since then has been very good until his last one. But I expect him to go out and get after it, and certainly has the stuff to be successful.”

The righty did just that, allowing a one-out single in the second, but was just mowing down Red Sox, getting nine of the first 10 he faced with five strikeouts on just 37 pitches. Mayer cranked a 1-1 down the middle fastball for a 410-foot shot to right to start the fifth. And trouble found him for the first time in the sixth in the form of a leadoff triple and a walk, a sac fly brought in a run, and that's when the righty lost his feel, walking the next two batters to load the bases.

And that ended the rookie's night for lefty Brent Headrick. But Red Sox manager Alex Cora countered with Romy Gonzalez, and the right pinch-hitter lined a single to left to score two. And the Sox jumped on Bellinger to put runners at second and third.

But Headrick got Story and pinch-hitter Rob Refsnyder swinging to end the threat.

Warren’s final line: 5.1 innings, four runs, three hits, four walks on 84 pitches (51 strikes).

- Headrick got a third strikeout to start the seventh, but plunked Duran and left a fastball up in the zone to Rafael Devers, who clobbered it 419 feet to right, cutting the Yanks’ lead to 9-6.

Fernando Cruz came in and did what he's done all year: struck out the next two, getting three strikes looking and three swinging. Jonathan Loáisiga got the eighth and surrendered a leadoff ground-rule double, but stranded the runner. Devin Williams opened the ninth with a groundout before hitting Duran on a 3-0 pitch. But shut the door with a flyout and a strikeout for his seventh save of the year. 

- Goldschmidt entered Friday night’s game in a 2-for-21 funk, and that continued as he went hitless his first three times up before he got a Yankee Stadium special with a 346-foot solo shot to right to start the bottom of the sixth. Goldschmidt had a big chance with runners on second and third and two out in the seventh, but went down with a half-swing to strand two.

He finished the day 1-for-5 with two strikeouts and went 0-for-4 with RISP.

- Judge pumped his average back to .397 with the 3-for-5 night with an RBI and a strikeout swinging.

- Wells went 2-for-4, Dominguez 1-for-4 with a walk and two strikeouts, and DJ LeMahieu 1-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout.

- Bellinger, who homered and had two hits on Thursday, yanked a double to the corner in the fifth to finish 1-for-5 with a strikeout.

- Boone said before the game he liked the at-bats from Grisham despite him not seeing many results at the plate of late, entering Friday, 1-for-18 over his last five games. He nabbed a single up the middle in his fifth time up. He finished 1-for-4 with a walk and a strikeout.

- Volpe’s first-inning blast would have been a homer in just one other permanent MLB stadium (Cincinnati). He finished 1-for-1 with three RBI before he was replaced by Oswald Peraza, who went 0-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout.

Game MVP: Jazz Chisholm Jr.

In his fourth game back from the IL, Chisholm went 3-for-5 with four RBI. He added two steals and one caught stealing.

Highlights

JAZZ CHISHOLM JR. 3-RUN HOMER! pic.twitter.com/lw0esN0Y4i

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 6, 2025

Anthony Volpe 2-run shot to right!

2 homers & 5 runs in the first inning off Walker Buehler! pic.twitter.com/TkWbvZeodx

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 6, 2025

Jazz Chisholm Jr. drives in his fourth run of the game! pic.twitter.com/39I9YqBk4E

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 7, 2025

Walker Buehler hits Anthony Volpe with the bases loaded and the Yankees lead 7-0 pic.twitter.com/fWEM0xi4NZ

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 7, 2025

Aaron Judge’s 3rd hit of the night drives in his 51st RBI of the season!

8-1 Yankees! pic.twitter.com/D6b0GPhxdl

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 7, 2025

Paul Goldschmidt to the porch! pic.twitter.com/xoZlh4qCqS

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 7, 2025

What's next

The two rivals renew their hostilities on Saturday night with a 7:35 p.m. start.

A battle of southpaw starters will see Ryan Yarbrough (2.83 ERA, 0.922 WHIP over 41.1 innings) get the ball for the home team against Garrett Crochet (1.98 ERA, 1.061 WHIP over 82 innings).

Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe exited Friday night's game against the Boston Red Sox after he was hit by a pitch on the left elbow.

The team announced Volpe was lifted with a left elbow contusion and was undergoing X-rays and CT scans.

Batting for the second time of the game, Volpe was dinged by an 88.8 mph changeup from Walker Buehler on his left elbow. The hit-by pitch drove in a run, to put the Yanks up 7-0 in the second inning, and Volpe was in immediate discomfort, grabbing his hand and wrist area.

Volpe was examined by the team trainer for a long while as he walked slowly up the first baes line and then for a period while at the bag. But the 24-year-old was able to stay in the game to run the bases.

He was back out there the next half inning at shortstop, but when the top of the fourth inning began, Oswaldo Peraza had replaced him on the left side of the diamond.

Volpe finished the day 1-for-1 with three RBI after he smacked a two-out opposite-field home run in the home half of the first.

Walker Buehler hits Anthony Volpe with the bases loaded and the Yankees lead 7-0 pic.twitter.com/fWEM0xi4NZ

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 7, 2025

Anthony Volpe 2-run shot to right!

2 homers & 5 runs in the first inning off Walker Buehler! pic.twitter.com/TkWbvZeodx

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 6, 2025

There was a scary moment involving Mets prospect Jett Williams in Friday night's game with the Binghamton Rumble Ponies.

In the first inning of the Binghamton-Somerset game, Patriots right-hander Carlos Lagrange threw a 1-2 fastball up and in to Williams. However, the pitch, which SNY prospects writer Joe DeMayo clocked at 98 mph, ran in and hit Williams near the ear flap of his batting helmet. Williams collapsed to the ground before he sat up as the trainer checked him out. After a minute or two, Williams got back up and walked off under his own power and was taken out of the game.

The team got good news on Saturday as Williams has appeared to avoid a concussion and should return to Binghamton's lineup soon, according to MLB.com's Anthony DiComo.

Williams, DeMayo's No. 2 Mets prospect, was having a solid first full season in Double-A. In 47 games, Williams is slashing .277/.381/.446 with four home runs, 12 doubles, 17 stolen bases and an OPS of .827.

Entering Friday's game, Williams had a two-game hitting streak going and reached base at least once in the last 10 games.

A scary moment in Binghamton as Jett Williams was hit in the helmet by a 98 mph fastball.

He was tended to by the training staff and walked off the field under his own power pic.twitter.com/kSgGtMgLEU

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) June 7, 2025