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MIAMI — Their season ended at loanDepot park last year, and Sunday sure seemed like déjà vu for the Mets.

Of course, there are still four months remaining — plenty of time for a change in course — but finding hope for this beleaguered bunch is a challenge, especially as the tougher part of the schedule awaits in the coming weeks.

On Sunday, with their best hitter sidelined, the Mets went from sluggish to comatose in a 4-0 loss that completed the Marlins’ three-game sweep. The loss was the Mets’ fourth straight and moved them 2 ½ games behind the Marlins for worst in the NL East.

Heriberto Hernández’s walk-off grand slam against Devin Williams sent the Mets to a fourth straight loss as they completed a 2-5 road trip. The Mets, who began the day ranked last in MLB with a .642 OPS, scored only two runs in getting swept three games in South Florida.

“We ran into some good pitching and we ourselves are not at our best,” Marcus Semien said. “We were in position to win this game. We had a couple of chances. We couldn’t come through with two outs.”

The futility included the Mets going 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position on a day they totaled only five hits against six pitchers in essentially a bullpen game for the Marlins.

“We’re scuffling,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “We have got a lot of guys that are going through it right now. We’re not grinding at-bats. When you look at it we had two hard-hit balls. Other than that we have got to figure it out. We have got to be able to score runs.”

Juan Soto was scratched from the lineup because of illness. Mendoza indicated sickness has been spreading through the clubhouse in recent days.

The lineup change removed one of the few productive players in the Mets lineup. Soto has a 1.342 OPS with six homers over his last 10 games. MJ Melendez took his spot.

Christopher Morel’s leadoff double against Williams, who had a streak of 10 straight scoreless appearances snapped, began the winning rally. After a sacrifice bunt moved the lead run to third and Liam Hicks walked, the Mets loaded the bases with an intentional walk to Xavier Edwards. Hernández cleared the center field fence on the second pitch.

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Christian Scott had his best outing this season, allowing only four hits and two walks over 5 ²/₃ scoreless innings. The right-hander struck out five and departed with the game scoreless after Jakob Marsee’s two-out single in the sixth.

“It’s part of baseball,” Scott said of the phantom run support. “But we have got the utmost faith and confidence in these guys going forward and I feel like we’re one little step away from turning something on here.”

The Mets put multiple runners on base in the second, fourth and fifth innings but did not score. In the second, Hayden Senger was retired for the final out after a two-out walk to Tyrone Taylor. Semien started the inning by reaching on Javier Sanoja’s throwing error. In the fourth, Brett Baty singled and Melendez walked before Taylor was retired for the final out. Bo Bichette and A.J. Ewing reached on consecutive singles in the fifth before Vientos became the final out.

In the sixth, Baty drew a leadoff walk before Semien grounded into a double play. Melendez got hit by a pitch before Taylor was retired.

Carson Benge walked and stole second in the seventh, but was left stranded at third when Ewing struck out to conclude the frame.

Ewing threw a strike to the plate in the bottom of the inning to nail Sanoja attempting to score from second on Xavier Edwards’ single through the middle against Brooks Raley. The Marlins loaded the bases with two outs on Caissie’s infield single before Raley retired Stowers.

Melendez singled leading off the ninth, but pinch runner Nick Morabito got thrown out attempting to steal second.

“What we’re doing right now is not good,” Mendoza said. “We have got a few guys that are having a hard time. We’re having a hard time creating traffic, a hard time squaring the ball up and we have got to figure it out.”

The Dodgers gave Yoshinobu Yamamoto ample run support on Sunday, as they took the finale against the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 to cap off their first winning road trip since their first of the season.

The last time Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched in the regular season in Milwaukee, he allowed six runs and failed to get out of the first inning. This time around, he faced the minimum on just nine pitches.

The Brewers once again took an early lead, this time coming in the bottom of the second inning. After Yamamoto plunked Jake Bauers and allowed a single to Garrett Mitchell, Sal Frelick drove home Bauers on a fielder’s choice to give Milwaukee a one-run lead.

Rookie Brandon Sproat had the Dodgers scuffling at the plate over the first three innings, holding them scoreless while striking out five. He started the fourth with his sixth strikeout, but singles from Teoscar Hernández and Dalton Rushing put the tying run in scoring position. Sproat racked up his career-high seventh strikeout against Hyeseong Kim, but he plunked Miguel Rojas on the knee to load the bases and let the lead slip with a wild pitch to score Hernández.

A leadoff single from Mookie Betts and a walk from Freddie Freeman knocked Sproat out of the game in the top of the fifth inning, with the lefty Shane Drohan coming in to face Kyle Tucker. The lefty-lefty matchup backfired for Milwaukee, as Tucker roped his second triple in as many games, plating both Betts and Freeman to give the Dodgers the lead. He is the first Dodger to have a tripled in two straight games since Gavin Lux in 2021. Tucker now has nine hits in his last 17 at-bats (.529 average) against left-handers since May 4.

Andy Pages immediately followed Tucker on the very next pitch with a two-run shot to extend the lead to four runs. His 45 RBI on the season are once again tied for the most in baseball, joining Washington National shortstop C.J. Abrams. The Dodgers as a team subsequently went hitless over their next nine at-bats against Drohan and failed to get another baserunner until a ninth inning walk to Shohei Ohtani.

Those five runs were the highest amount of support the Dodgers gave Yamamoto since May 4 against Houston, and Yamamoto responded by keeping the Brewers scoreless over his next five innings of work. Although the strikeouts were sparse— with his three being the second least in any start this year— and the seven hits he allowed were a season high, he was able to rely on soft contact as he induced a career-high 11 ground ball outs— two being ground ball double plays. Sunday was the first time all season that Yamamoto got a winning decision while tossing at least seven innings.

Will Klein and Tanner Scott kept up the impressive work from the Dodgers bullpen, as they now extend their franchise record scoreless streak to 38 innings.

The Dodgers have won their first series in Milwaukee since July 2024. The Dodgers finish their nine-game road trip with a 7-2 record, averaging 6.3 runs per game while taking every series.

Game particulars

• Home runs— Andy Pages (11)
• WP— Yoshinobu Yamamoto (4-4): 7 IP, 7 hits, 1 earned run, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
• LP— Brandon Sproat (1-3): 4+ IP, 4 hits, 3 earned runs, 4 walks, 7 strikeouts

Up next

The Dodgers are back at home as they begin a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies on Monday (7:10 p.m. PT, SportsNet LA). Emmet Sheehan goes for the Dodgers, while the Rockies have yet to announce their starter.

Box Score

The Brewers collected seven hits off Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but couldn’t string enough of them together to score more than one run. After today’s loss, the Brewers have now dropped two straight as they head into a series against the division-rival St. Louis Cardinals.

Unlike in the first two games of this series, the Brewers couldn’t put a run on the board in the first inning. Milwaukee broke through in the second against Yamamoto, who opened the frame by running a fastball in on Jake Bauers’ hands. The pitch was initially ruled a foul ball, but Bauers challenged the call. Replay clearly showed the ball hit his hand, sending Bauers to first with nobody out.

After Andrew Vaughn struck out for the first out of the inning, Garrett Mitchell lined a single into center to put runners on the corners. Sal Frelick followed with a slow chopper to second that wasn’t hit hard enough to turn two — or even elicit a throw from shortstop Mookie Betts, who was covering the bag. Mitchell was thrown out at second, but Bauers crossed the plate with the game’s first run.

Despite walking three batters and allowing a double to Kyle Tucker, starting pitcher Brandon Sproat managed to escape the first two innings unscathed. He retired Betts, Freddie Freeman, and Tucker in order in the third. However, as has happened in a few different starts this season, Sproat started to fall apart after that. Despite tying his career high with seven strikeouts in the fourth inning, he allowed two singles and hit Miguel Rojas, then gave the Dodgers a run on a wild pitch.

Sproat managed to escape the fourth by inducing a groundout off the bat of Shohei Ohtani, but the fifth would be a different story. Betts led off with a single, then Sproat walked Freeman. At 89 pitches, that would be all for the rookie right-hander. Brewers manager Pat Murphy brought in Shane Drohan to face Kyle Tucker, who ripped a grounder down the right-field line and into the corner for a two-run triple.

Drohan’s very next pitch was a 92-mph cutter up and in to Andy Pages, who made him pay, launching it deep into the left-field seats for a two-run homer. Drohan retired the next three batters, but the damage was already done, as the Dodgers extended their lead to 5-1.

Meanwhile, Yamamoto settled in after the second inning and cruised through the middle frames. He didn’t allow another run and entered the seventh inning at just 74 pitches. The Brewers weren’t completely overmatched — they collected seven hits off Yamamoto — but every one of them was a single. Milwaukee also went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position against Yamamoto and grounded into a pair of double plays, which usually isn’t enough to keep pace with the formidable Dodgers lineup.

Reliever Will Klein came in for the eighth and retired Jackson Chourio, Brice Turang, and William Contreras in order, and the Brewers fared no better against Tanner Scott in the ninth.

Looking on the bright side, Milwaukee won’t have to wait long to try and get back in the win column. They’ll welcome the Cardinals to American Family Field for a rare Monday day game on Memorial Day. First pitch for tomorrow’s series opener is set for 1:10 p.m.

Postgame updates: Quintana spoke to the media after the game and said his elbow is feeling “quite painful.”

“In the second inning, I felt stress in my elbow,” he said. “It was the first time I’ve felt [that]. It’s really frustrating to leave the game with the loss like that, so it’s pretty sad for me.”

He said he felt a little fatigue while he was warming up, but hoped to go out as soon as he was ready.

“It feels a little better than when I was warming up, but sitting and going back in when the game started, I started to feel a lot of pain in there.”

“I didn’t feel any pop,” Quintana emphasized. “I don’t think anything is broken, but I felt a lot of pain, especially on my offspeed, and I still feel a lot of heaviness in my elbow so I couldn’t get focused and execute pitches so I had a really hard time.”

He said the pitch he threw to Corbin Carroll for the triple in the first inning was really painful, and everything after that just got worse and worse.

As far as next steps go, Quintana is going to fly back to Denver to get an MRI either tomorrow or Tuesday. He’s never had elbow issues, so “it’s so frustrating right now.”

“You have that chance to compete, you want to stay in the game” he said. “It’s really tough to handle, and you have a lot of other things go through your mind. But it’s tough for me to know what happened in there. I just know that I’m in a lot of pain.”

Update 3:19pm: The Rockies announced that Quintana left today’s game with left elbow discomfort.

Colorado Rockies left-handed pitcher José Quintana left Sunday afternoon’s series finale against the Arizona Diamondbacks with the training staff in the second inning.

Quintana gave up six earned runs on seven hits without a recording a walk or a strikeout through 1.1 innings before he was removed. His final pitch was taken deep to left field for a ground-rule double off the bat of Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte, which scored two runs. Quintana was seen shaking his left arm as the training staff took the field to check on him, and he was removed from the game without attempting to throw another pitch.

Right-handed reliever Blas Castañ0 entered the game in relief of Quintana.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The Phillies faced a lefthanded starting pitcher and lost the game. On Sunday afternoon, the Phillies faced a solid lefty in the Guardians’ Parker Messick and their season-long struggles against southpaws continued. They mustered just six hits and one run on the day, and as a result, lost the game by a score of 3-1.

After getting gems from Cristopher Sanchez and Zack Wheeler in the first two games of the series, the Phillies were hoping for a solid performance from rookie starter Andrew Painter on Sunday. And that’s what they got, with Painter going 6.1 innings, and allowing two runs.

He’s still not striking out as many batters as you’d hope, and he got some help from his defense with two double plays being turned as well as J.T Realmuto throwing out a would-be base stealer. Still, after his awful showing against the Athletics earlier this month, he’s been plenty respectable in the three starts since.

Painter walked just two batters, but unfortunately, both of them came around to score. In the fifth, after giving Daniel Schneemann a one-out walk, consecutive hits by David Fry and Steven Kwan broke the scoreless tie.

The following inning, a two-out walk to Chase DeLauter when Rhys Hoskins followed with a double to make it 2-0. Here was one case when Painter’s defense didn’t help him, as Edmundo Sosa took a long time to get the ball back in.

The Phillies didn’t take advantage of the few scoring opportunities they had. Messick walked two batters in the third, but Alec Bohm struck out to end the threat. In the sixth, a two out single by Bryson Stott chased Messick, and then Adolis Garcia walked against reliever Colin Holderman. But a Justin Crawford groundout ensured the Phillies’ run total remained at zero.

Their best chance to make a game of it came in the seventh when Brandon Marsh led off with a triple and Trea Turner followed with a walk. But after Kyle Schwarber struck out, Bryce Harper just missed a pitch, instead sending a long fly ball to center that stayed in the park. It was a sacrifice fly that represented the Phillies’ only run of the game, but it was still a letdown, especially when Bohm weakly grounded out to end the inning.

That felt a bit like game over, and that feeling grew stronger the following inning when Jonathan Bowlan gave up a home run to Travis Bazzana.

Sure enough, the Phillies went down in order the final two innings. Fittingly, Trea Turner ended the game with one of his trademark looping strikeouts, capping off an 0-12 series. The Phillies’ problems with lefty pitching aren’t limited to Turner, but when he’s supposed to be your star hitter from the right side, that’s certainly a big part of what’s ailing them.

The Phillies will now venture westward for a six-game Southern California road trip. Maybe the switch to Western time will help wake up the Phillies’ bats, because they seemed to sleepwalk through the entire weekend.

The Mets were swept by the Miami Marlins after a 4-0 loss on Sunday afternoon.

Here are the takeaways...

-- We pick this one up in the bottom of the ninth inning of a 0-0 tie where closer Devin Williams gave up a leadoff double to Christopher Morel. After a perfect sacrifice bunt moved the runner over to third base, Williams walked Liam Hicks and then Xavier Edwards intentionally to load the bases and set up a possible double play. 

Instead, Heriberto Hernandez hit a grand slam to give the Marlins a 4-0 win.

-- Christian Scott started the game and had his best (and longest) outing of the season after keeping the Marlins scoreless for 5.2 innings.

The right-hander had some trouble to work out of in the early part of the game, like leaving a runner stranded at second base in the first inning following a one-out double byEdwards and escaping a bases-loaded jam in the third after allowing a single and back-to-back walks with one out.

Both times, Scott got the second out of the frame with a strikeout to give himself some wiggle room, ultimately getting out of harm's way unscathed and keeping Miami off the board.

-- In the fourth, the right-hander once again had to deal with runners on the basepaths following a leadoff single by Otto Lopez and a one-out HBP. Once again, Scott struck out the next batter before ending the inning with a flyout.

-- After a 1-2-3 fifth inning and at 83 pitches thrown, Scott went back out for the sixth for the first time this season and retired the first two hitters of the inning. A single by Jakob Marsee ended his afternoon, though, as manager Carlos Mendoza pulled his youngster for Huascar Brazoban.

It was easily Scott’s best start of the year as he lowered his season ERA to 3.20, but with the game tied 0-0 once he left, Scott would not factor into the decision and will have to wait for his next start for an opportunity to get his first career win.

-- New York’s offense wasn’t able to help out its starting pitcher as it matched the Marlins’ scoring drought over nine innings. 

After scoring just two runs in the first two games, the Mets' bats, without Juan Soto, who was scratched from the lineup due to an illness, continued to stall and were held scoreless against Tyler Phillips (3.2 IP, 2 H, 2 BB), Calvin Faucher (1.1 IP, 2 H), John King (0.2 IP, 1 BB), Anthony Bender (1.0 IP, 1 BB), Michael Peterson (1.1 IP, 2 K) and Pete Fairbanks (1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 1 K).

-- Neither team could get the big hit when it mattered the most for most of the game, combining to go 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position until Edwards hit one up the middle with runners on first and second in the bottom of the seventh. 

However, the hit did not yield a run as A.J. Ewing came up firing in center field and delivered a perfect two-hopper to Luis Torrens at home plate who tagged out Javier Sanoja to keep the game scoreless. Heriberto Hernandez followed with another hit with RISP, an infield single that loaded the bases against Brooks Raley, but the veteran lefty did not flinch and got the next batter to ground out to second to end the inning.

-- The Marlins made a great defensive play of their own in the top of the ninth inning when the catcher Hicks threw out pinch-runner Nick Morabito trying to steal second base after MJ Melendez led off the inning with a single.

Game MVP: Heriberto Hernandez

In a game that was scoreless until one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, Hernandez had the big blow with his grand slam.

Highlights

A.J. Ewing gets the runner trying to score! pic.twitter.com/LdpkxF5UVN

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 24, 2026

What's next

The Mets head home for a quick Memorial Day turnaround as they get ready to host the Cincinnati Reds for a three-game series starting on Monday. First pitch is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. on SNY.

RHP Nolan McLean (2-3, 3.57 ERA) hopes to bounce back from his worst start and will face off against LHP Nick Lodolo (0-1, 7.20 ERA).

The Rays absolutely had their chances to win this game to wrap up a five-day and two-game road trip, but bad baserunning in multiple innings left the club scoreless to set up an Aaron Judge walk-off home run in the 9th.

The game for the Rays came down to two innings – the 3rd and the 8th – and poor decisions on the basepaths derailed both innings. Carson Williams led off the third with a walk, but was promptly picked off first by Ryan Weathers:

That moment was followed by singles from both Yandy Diaz and Jonathan Aranda, but instead of Williams scoring on either event, the inning ended when Junior Caminero grounded into a 6-4-3 double play. The 8th inning was more painful because a one-out double off the wall by Diaz was soon followed by a two-out intentional walk of Caminero by Fernando Cruz. Kevin Cash elected to leave Ryan Vilade in to face Cruz with Tim Hill warming in the pen, and Vilade had a tremendous at bat against Cruz singling into left field. That single would have easily scored pinch-running Oliver Dunn if Caminero had not decided that he should take it upon himself to go first to third on a ball hit to left field and get thrown out at third before Dunn was able to cross the plate:

Bellinger picked up the baseball as Caminero was into his second step toward third base from mid-left field, and from the video above, it is not clear when he made the decision to run, but his delusions of grandeur cost the Rays the go-ahead run in the 8th because this was just an aggressively bone-headed decision that someone who is not the fleetest of foot absolutely cannot make in that moment:

It turns out one run would not have mattered as Kevin Kelly turned an 0-2 count to Grisham into a walk before Aaron Judge broke out of his 11-game RBI slump with a walk-off shot into right-center field.

The bad baserunning should not take away from what a brilliantly pitched game by both starters today. Ryan Weathers held the Rays at bay through the first seven innings with only Nick Fortes making any type of hard contact off him. Weathers only generated five swings and misses, but the combination of his stuff and the damp and windy weather shut down the offense. Rasmussen went seven innings on 92 pitches generating 14 whiffs resulting in six strikeouts and just one walk. It was the first time in three years Rasmussen worked seven complete innings and his sixth consecutive start allowing three or fewer runs since the unfortuate outing in Pittsburgh five weeks ago.

One area of positivity was something Nick Fortes corrected during the game. Jazz Chisholm Jr was easily able to steal a base in the second inning as Fortes’s throw went to the shortstop side of the bag, something he did twice on Friday night:

David Laurila had an interesting piece on Fangraphs the other day which included quotes from Hunter Feduccia in it

“I don’t know exactly when they started teaching this, but it’s more to the right side of the bag,” Feduccia told me. “The infielder will set up there to give you a good target. If you tag the runner before he gets to the bag, you have a better chance of not getting swim-moved, and things like that. If you accidentally pull your throw to the left side of the bag, you’re not giving yourself as much of a chance as when it’s toward the runner.”

The article then goes on to quote Matt LewCroy who says video review helped teams see throws to the first base side were yielding more out calls, and now teams are coaching that at all levels. Fortes self-corrected in the 4th and barely nabbed Bellinger attempted steal of second base:

The Rays have struggled all season to prevent the running game, but throws like that at least give the ifnielders a fighting chance and it was good to see Fortes make the better throw the next time the siutation presented itself.

The Rays have been in New York since Wednesday night and played just two games in their five-day, four-night stay and walk away with a series split and a 4.5 game lead in the division. They take an Amtrk down from Penn Station to Union Station in Baltimore, where the Orioles walked off the hapless Tigers today with Colton Cowser taking a center cut cutter from Kenley Jansen into the centerfield bleachers. Perhaps the coaches can conduct a micro-lesson while on the train on baserunning to avoid repeating the misatkes of the weekend which also included two pickoffs on inside moves at second base in the first game.