Worldwide Sports News

The stats were bonkers in this one.

The Rockies drew 10 walks and added two more free passes through hit by pitches, which should lead to numerous runs. On defense, the Rockies committed four fielding errors, which should result in a loss. When it comes to pitching, Kyle Freeland gave up a grand slam to Jose Siri.

Through it all, the Rockies persisted, rallying for two comebacks — including a five-run eighth inning — to pull out a hard-to-believe win on Monday night.

With the game tied 8-8, the Rockies had to dial up another comeback in the ninth. It was small, but mighty enough to win as Kyle Karros singled, Jake McCarthy doubled and TJ Rumfield hit a sac fly to drive in the winning run.

“That was not a normal game. They gave 12 free passes. We kicked the ball a bunch tonight and threw it around sloppily, but somebody’s got to win that game,” said Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer. “I thought the boys showed incredible resilience, bouncing back multiple times, just sticking with it and throwing up really good at-bats all night long, despite the horrendous defense.”

Big hits in the 8th

After the big hits had been elusive all game, they finally came in the eighth inning for the Rockies. Sterlin Thompson and Kyle Karros led off the frame with back-to-back doubles. When Thompson scored, it cut the Angels lead to 6-4. Jake McCarthy followed with a walk and Tyler Freeman singled to score Karros to cut L.A’s lead to 6-5. That’s when Hunter Goodman handled things, hitting his 14th homer of the year and putting the Rockies up 8-6.

The Rockies hit around in the inning, which marked the 10th time this season when the Rockies scored five or more runs.

“We’ve had some good innings this year, but that was a big one,” Schaeffer said.

The Rockies seven, eight and nine hitters, Edouard Julien, Thompson and Karros, combined to draw three walks, produce four hits score three runs and drive in two. That helped McCarthy add more of a spark in the leadoff spot as the outfielder homered, doubled, scored two runs and walked twice.

“Jake was awesome,” Schaeffer said. “It makes such a difference when the bottom of the lineup gets on base like that.”

Nothing is easy

Unfortunately for the Rockies, Jaden Hill wasn’t at his best in the bottom of the eighth. The reliever gave up a leadoff walk and then a single to bring the go-ahead run to the plate. With only recording one out, Hill was pulled for Antonio Senzatela. He gave up a triple to Jorge Soler, which tied the game, but then he got out of the inning.

In the bottom of the ninth, Senzatela got one out on one pitch, but then gave up a single. Siri then hit a groundball to Ezequiel Tovar, who touched second and gunned the ball to first for a double play.

The Angels challenged the out on speedy Siri, but the ruling on the field was confirmed and Senzatela earned the win to improve to 5-0 (even though he also got the blown save).

It ain’t grand

Despite giving up two singles and a long fly ball to the warning track, Kyle Freeland made it through the first two innings with a clean sheet. When he gave up back-to-back singles to Donovan Walton and Jorge Soler to lead off the third, it was a sign of a rough inning to come. Even though he retired the next two batters via two lineouts, including Mike Trout, Jo Adell put the Angels on the board with an RBI single to cut the Rockies lead to 2-1.

Oswald Peraza kept the rally going with an infield hit to load the bases, which teed up a grand slam Jose Siri. In one frame, the Rockies went from up 2-0, to trailing 5-2.

Freeland bounced back in the fourth with a three-up, three-down inning that was capped off with a Trout strikeout. Outside of the satisfaction of striking out one of the best hitters in baseball, the K marked Freeland’s 986th career strikeout, which moved him into second place above Jorge De La Rosa on the all-time Colorado franchise list. He now trails only Germán Márquez’s 1,069.

Freeland finished the day with four strikeouts (987), but gave up six runs (five earned), on seven hits with one walk in 5.2 innings. As proof of the Freeland’s struggles this season, the outing dropped Freeland’s ERA from 8.08 to 8.06. However, Schaeffer was still impressed with Freeland’s outing.

“I thought Free threw the ball well. He maintained his velocity all day, put the ball where he wanted, and the changeup was really working,” said Schaeffer, who blamed the bad defense for too much of the scoring. “He competed against nine right-handers, which is hard to do. Kudos to him. He battled and got us through 5-plus with a bullpen that’s been taxed of late.”

An early road advantage

The Rockies jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first when Tyler Freeman drew a walk and advanced to second on a throwing error on a failed pick off at first. Troy Johnston took advantage with a slow single up the middle to plate Freeman and put Colorado up 1-0.

McCarthy doubled to lead with a walkoff homer. The 397-foot shot to center field was his fourth of the season.

In the fifth, Thompson hit an RBI single to cut L.A.‘s lead to 5-3. Through seven innings, the three runs on four hits were all the Rockies could muster. Going into the eighth, the Rockies were 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position and had left 10 runners on base. They also had drawn eight walks and were hit by two pitches.

In other words, the Rockies had their chances, but couldn’t capitalize. It didn’t help that in the game the Rockies struck out 11 times — five recorded by Ezequiel Tovar. Schaeffer was still happy with his team’s offensive approach.

“The whole game, even though we did punch out 10 times, I thought the at-bats were excellent tonight,” Schaeffer said.

Freeman hit a foul ball off his foot late in the game and didn’t return to field in the bottom of the eighth. Schaeffer said the Rockies will know more on Tuesday about the severity of the injury.

Up next

The Rockies and Angels will be back in action Tuesday at 7:38 p.m. MDT. Tomoyuki Sugano 菅野 智之 (4-4, 4.01 ERA) will get the start for the Rockies, while LHP Grayson Rodriguez (2-1, 7.53 ERA).

Please keep in mind our Purple Row Community Guidelines when you’re commenting. Thanks!

It was a frustrating start to the season for Sean Manaea. 

The left-hander struggled to find his velocity during spring training and he ended up landing in more of a mop-up role out of the Mets’ bullpen early on. 

Instead of putting his head down, Manaea keep on grinding. 

He put in a ton of work with pitching coach Justin Willard, and is finally starting to see all of that paying off.   

The veteran has found more success with an uptick in velocity over his past few outings, leading to him receiving an opportunity in the Mets’ starting rotation. 

“You have to give him credit,” Carlos Mendoza said. “When it was hard for him he was basically the last guy out of the bullpen and he never put his head down -- you saw him doing long toss and all of the drills we put him through.

“When you see the velo now starting to come up, we know the strike-showing ability, but now the cutter and the sweeper throwing strikes -- that’s the guy that we saw in 2024.”

And that’s the guy that the Mets saw on Monday night, as well.

Manaea was absolutely spectacular serving as the bulk reliever for the first time this season, piecing together his best and longest outing to this point. 

He lost a left-on-left matchup with 20-year-old Colt Emerson, allowing a solo homer to right in the bottom of the third, but otherwise cruised his way through Seattle's lineup. 

The southpaw gave up just one other baserunner on a walk and struck out four over 5.0 innings. 

Manaea’s velocity increased again, and he's now held his opponent to one run in three straight appearances. 

“I’ve just been taking things day-by-day,” he said. “Just building each day and coming in with a plan, and slowly but surely I’ve just been feeling really good on the mound.”

It remains to be seen if it’ll be as a straight starter or bulk reliever again, but Manaea is in line to take another turn in the rotation the next time around. 

Record: 32-27. Pace: 88-74. Change on 2025: +4.

May finished in rough shape for the D-backs beating swept in Seattle. For much of tonight, it looked like June would start the same way. While Eduardo Rodriguez had kept the team in the game, the Arizona bats appeared still be circling on a luggage carousel at Sky Harbor. They had managed just one hit through five innings from Dodgers’ starter Emmet Sheehan, and it looked like the one run the visitors had scored would be enough. However, home-runs from Tommy Troy in the sixth, and Nolan Arenado in the seventh gave the D-backs a lead, and Ketel Marte added welcome insurance in the eighth, becoming the first Arizona hitter to reach double digits in home-runs for 2026.

Rodriguez started off with a crisp 12-pitch first, retiring the Dodgers in order. Corbin Carroll then doubled into the right field corner with one out in the bottom of the inning. I’m sure he was hoping for another three-bagger, but a decent carom off the fence meant Corbin stayed, wisely, at second. Neither Geraldo Perdomo nor Nolan Arenado could get him home, however. Worth noting: that was the only baseball for the Diamondbacks to touch the outfield grass all night. E-Rod had a much more stressful second inning. The first two reached, and it required some good defense by Ildemaro Vargas (below), coming home to nail the runner, before Rodriguez left the bases loaded, and the game still scoreless.

In fact, here’s probably a good place to praise the Arizona defense tonight. Vargas and Jorge Barrosa may both be unable to hit water if they fell out of a boat, but their gloves stood up in this one. Barrosa had a couple of excellent diving plays in center field. In addition to saving a run at home, Vargas started a key double-play in the eighth inning, after Shohei Ohtani had singled to put the then-tying run on base with no outs. All three plays can also be found on the reel above. It wasn’t all good. Tommy Troy whiffed on a diving catch attempt in the third inning, which helped set up the game’s opening run for LA. But he’s hardly a natural left fielder, and given subsequent events, we will forgive him.

Yes, this game was definitely one where the W goes to the pitching and defense. Rodriguez was hardly overpowering, with just three strikeouts from the 24 batters faced. But he ground his way through six innings, and stopped the Dodgers from extending the lead. One of Eduardo’s Ks was quite amusing, however. He faced Miguel Rojas, and on 1-1, threw a pitch called a strike by home-plate umpire Rob Drake. Rojas challenged, and it was overturned by the narrowest possible margin, less than 0.1”. The next pitch was another strike… until another successful Rojas challenge, by a 0.1” margin. Rodriguez threw two more strikes, the last one surviving Rojas’s third challenge of the at-bat, for a K.

As noted above, Arizona was clinically unable to deal with Sheehan’s slider through five innings. He had retired fifteen D-backs in a row, through the first out of the sixth. Then Troy atoned for his role in the Dodgers’ run, by depositing his first MLB homer into the left-field bleachers, tying the game at 1-1. It was suddenly a brand-new ballgame, with three innings left. Arenado certainly seemed to think so, chasing Sheehan from the game in the seventh, after catching a slider for his eighth home-run of the year. Then, just when we were thinking Paul Sewald would have to protect the narrowest of margins, Troy dropped down a perfect two-out bunt, and Marte lasered his 10th over the fence, for a 4-1 lead. [All three HR and the bunt above]

Rodriguez left after six innings, allowing one run on five hits and a walk with three strikeouts. That reduced his season ERA to 2.24. through a dozen starts. It’s the lowest to that point for Arizona since Patrick Corbin’s 1.98 ERA after twelve appearances in 2013. He didn’t quite get the 100th win of his career this evening, but I’d say he deserved it. The W instead went to Taylor Clarke for his scoreless seventh with a pair of strikeouts. Clarke now has an 0.36 ERA over 24.2 innings since his disastrous Opening Day outing in Los Angeles. With a little help from Vargas, Garcia faced the minimum in the 8th, and Paul Sewald completed the win, notching save #15 with a 1-2-3 ninth (and that’s the OVER officially locked in there for Place Your Bets!)

It’s not often a team will win a game while going just 0-for-2 with runners in scoring position. But the D-backs did so tonight, with another comeback victory. Not a great night for the offense, batting 5-for-29 overall, with no walks. But the home-runs were just enough, and if five hits is rarely enough to prevail, it certainly helps when your pitching holds the opposition to just one run. It was just what was needed after a very dispiriting series against the Mariners (whom, I note, walked off the Mets for their seventh win in a row tonight – so it’s not just us!). Hopefully that’ll set the tone for the rest of the series. Cardinals lost, so we’re back in sole possession of the second wild-card.

Click here for details, at Fangraphs.com
No place like home: Eduardo Rodriguez, +20%
Home is where the HRs are: Troy, +17%; Arenado, +17%; Garcia, +12%
No fixed abode: Geraldo Perdomo, -9%

Thanks to all who showed up in the GDT, gritting it out when things looked tough. 269 comments isn’t at all bad for a Monday night. We were all on top form, with a slew of Sedona Red comments, a number reaching eight or more recs. Well-played everyone. But I have to give it to ercil:

Tomorrow, it’s the same two teams, as this four-game set continues. Starting for the D-backs will be the pleasant surprise which has been Michael Soroka, with another 6:40 pm first pitch. See you there!

Red Sox legend David Ortiz told the Associated Press that despite his old ballclub’s current position in the standings, owner John Henry really does care about his team. 

Ortiz said that Henry was “worried” and that he had spoken to Henry recently about the downturn for the AL East team. 

“He knows the direction of this team and he’s worried about the team’s situation more than what people think he is,” Ortiz said, while speaking with the AP at his celebrity golf tournament. 

The Red Sox are currently 25-33 and sit dead last in the division. 

“He’s worried. We had a conversation. I can see. I’ve known John a long time, him and the whole team — him and [chairman] Tom Werner, the whole group, they’re working on figuring things out to get this ride better,” Ortiz also said. 

Boston has gone through a hellish season thus far, which has included a purge of the coaching staff in April that included firing manager Alex Cora and five other coaches. 

“I sat down to talk to John, and he wants to figure it out. He wants to have the formula to go back to the old days,” he said. “It’s not like he just gives up. Sometimes people don’t understand that the way that this game goes, that it’s hard to stay up there.”

The rough season has led to even further frustration from Red Sox fans, who from 2004-2018 had seen Boston win four World Series titles. 

A plane flew over Fenway Park last month calling on the Red Sox’s current ownership group to sell the team. 

“When you worry, you worry about everything in general. You worry about the team, you worry about the fans and you worry about how everything is moving around,” Ortiz said. “I tell you, the boss is, he’s working, he’s working. He’s working on putting the pieces that moving forward things get better around here.”

Only time will tell if Ortiz’s faith is correctly placed in Henry and the Red Sox ownership group to turn the team around.

Two hits over nine innings were enough to give them a chance Monday night, but the Mets weren’t going to extend their winning streak without a third.

That hit never arrived.

Instead, the Mariners’ win streak continued to a seventh straight game, as Cole Young’s walkoff single against A.J. Minter sent the Mets to a 3-2 loss in 10 innings at T-Mobile Park.

Randy Arozarena, the automatic runner to begin the inning, stole third base, leaving the Mariners 90 feet from the win. Young’s bloop to left with one out followed, snapping the Mets’ winning streak at four games.

“We had a good gameplan going in, but we just weren’t able to execute as much as we wanted,” said Jared Young, whose fifth-inning homer accounted for half the Mets’ hits and scoring.

Marcus Semien was the other half of the offense, with a sixth-inning blast that put the Mets ahead.

“It was a good game, a well-played game by both teams,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “There was a lot of good pitching from both sides and obviously coming into the series we know the type of pitching staff they have.”

It’s a staff that entered the day with a 3.46 ERA that ranked fifth in MLB.

In a performance barely seen from the left-hander since his breakout 2024 season, Sean Manaea contained the Mariners in a bulk relief role.

Manaea, in his longest outing of the season, allowed one earned run on one hit and one walk with four strikeouts over five innings. Manaea was moved into this more prominent role in recent days, essentially switching spots with David Peterson, who has become a lower leverage reliever.

“I was just attacking guys and throwing everything for strikes,” Manaea said. “I just felt it was a good pitching performance.”

Brooks Raley surrendered the game-tying homer an inning after Manaea’s removal. Mendoza said he didn’t consider allowing Manaea to pitch that seventh inning because his velocity began to drop in the sixth and he was already at his season’s longest outing.

Austin Warren served as the opener and worked a perfect first inning before plunking Arozarena to begin the second. Manaea was summoned and walked Young with one out before getting Rob Refsnyder to ground into an inning-ending double play.

Manaea surrendered a homer to Colt Emerson with one out in the third for the game’s first run. Emerson hit an 0-1 sweeper into the right-field seats for the fourth homer surrendered this season by Manaea.

Young homered leading off the fifth to tie it 1-1 after Emerson Hancock had retired 12 straight batters to begin the game. Young jumped on a 3-1 four-seam fastball and cleared the fence in left-center for his second homer in three games. Young began the day with an .837 OPS since returning last week from surgery to repair a meniscus tear in his left knee.

A.J. Ewing’s diving catch in center field robbed Young of a hit to begin the bottom of the fifth. Manaea retired Refsnyder before Mitch Garver’s loud fly to left field became the third out.

Semien continued his hot stretch with a homer leading off the sixth that gave the Mets a 2-1 lead. Semien began the day with a .954 OPS over his previous seven games. The blast was his sixth this season and second in as many games. Semien’s season has been a disappointment overall, after arriving in the trade that sent Brandon Nimmo to Texas in the offseason.

“He’s a guy that doesn’t panic, that is the biggest thing,” Mendoza said before the game. “He’s a guy that has been in this league for a long time and he understands there’s going to be stretches where it’s hard, but he doesn’t panic. He knows his foundation. He sticks to what he believes and what got him here so far.”

Josh Naylor homered against Raley leading off the bottom of the seventh to tie it 2-2. The hit was only the Mariners’ second of the night. Raley allowed a two-out single to Young before Luke Weaver recorded the final out.

Ewing’s diving catch on J.P. Crawford’s sinking line drive completed Weaver’s perfect eighth inning. The right-hander recorded his 12th straight scoreless outing.

Devin Williams worked a perfect ninth, making it seven straight batters retired by the Mets following Young’s single in the seventh.

PHOENIX –– For most of this season, the Dodgers have been watching the San Diego Padres in their rear-view mirror.

After Monday night, they might need to make sure the Arizona Diamondbacks are not sneaking up in their blind spot.

In the first of a four-game series at Chase Field, the Dodgers lost 4-1 to a resurgent D-backs team, which has won 15 of its last 22 games to move within a half-game of the Padres for second place in the National League West.

Neither division rival is exactly pushing the Dodgers right now. Even with Monday’s win, the D-backs remain 5 ½ games back in the NL West race.

But this week’s series does provide an opportunity for Arizona, which has recovered from a 17-20 start behind an expectedly good offense and, unexpectedly, an even better pitching staff in recent weeks.

“They’re resilient, they’re athletic, they can defend … and they’re playing great baseball,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said before first pitch Monday.

In the nine innings that followed, that remained the case.

Left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez flummoxed the Dodgers over six one-run innings, continuing his bounce-back campaign by escaping a couple early jams. 

In the top of the second, the Dodgers had two aboard with no outs, and the bases loaded with two outs, but came up empty. In the third, they had runners on second and third after back-to-back doubles from Shohei Ohtani (who had three hits on the night) and Andy Pages, but managed just one run on a Freddie Freeman grounder.

After that, the Dodgers (38-22) wouldn’t put another runner in scoring position –– getting robbed of a couple hits along the way by diving snags from Dbacks outfielder Jorge Barrosa in center.

“It certainly changes the complexion of those innings,” Roberts said of the catches. “That could have been a difference maker.”

The D-backs 32-27, meanwhile, erased the early deficit on solo home runs from Tommy Troy and Nolan Arenado in the sixth and seventh innings, then a backbreaking two-run blast from Ketel Marte in the eighth.

Down the stretch, a once-shaky D-backs bullpen also closed the door with three shutout innings. 

And suddenly, this early June series feels a little extra important.

What it means

For the first time in three weeks, the Dodgers have dropped two of three games.

And in both defeats, lackluster offense was to blame.

It’s hardly time to worry yet, with the Dodgers still averaging nearly six runs per game during a 14-4 stretch going back to May 13.

But even after getting 6 ⅓ strong innings from Emmet Sheehan, who gave up just two runs to lower his ERA to 4.50, their offense couldn’t get him off the hook for the loss.

“I thought we had some good at-bats and barrelled up some balls,” outfielder Kyle Tucker said. “But they made some nice plays and we just weren’t able to get the runs across, so just kind of how it goes sometimes.”

Who’s hot

Sheehan, who finally rediscovered his typical fastball velocity.

All year, the right-hander has struggled to dial up his heater, which had fallen from averaging 95.6 mph last season to 94.2 mph this year. But on Monday, it was up nearly two ticks, sitting at season-best 95.9 mph and topping out at a season-high 97.2 mph.

The extra life helped Sheehan be extra efficient in what matched his longest start of the campaign. After giving up a double to Corbin Carroll in the first inning, he retired his next 15 in a row on just 62 throws. For only the second time this year, he pitched into the seventh.

The only problem with Sheehan’s night were two mistakes that went over the fence. In the sixth, he left a 1-0 heater down the middle to Troy, who drove it out to left for his first career home run. In the seventh, Sheehan hung a first-pitch slider to Arenado, who launched another solo blast that chased Sheehan from the game.

Who’s not

Tucker, once again.

Coming off a two-hit game on Sunday that the Dodgers were hoping had snapped his previous 1-for-16 slump, the $240 million offseason signing went hitless once again on Monday, drawing an eight-pitch walk his first time up before stumbling to an 0-for-3 performance.

“I just need to do it more consistently everyday, rather than just every now and then,” Tucker said of his inconsistent production. “So, just come back tomorrow and try to get better at it.”

Tucker’s batting average on the season is now down to .238, and his OPS to .722. Among the team’s everyday players, only Mookie Betts has worse numbers (and he missed a month with an oblique strain).

Up next

The Dodgers will look to bounce back on Tuesday, when Eric Lauer will take the mound for his second start with the team. He’ll face right-hander Michael Soroka (7-2, 3.25 ERA).

Hot off four straight wins to end their homestand, the Mets were once again heading to the West Coast to play some baseball. This time they were facing the Seattle Mariners, with some great starting pitching to test their lineups. Emerson Hancock was making the start for the Mariners, and Austin Warren was starting for the Mets, though he was just opening the game before Sean Manaea would get the bulk of the innings.

The start of the game was quiet for both sides. Austin Warren pitched a scoreless inning before being pulled after hitting Randy Arozarena with a pitch, and Manaea took over and finished the second inning without allowing a run. The first run allowed by Mets pitching was a solo home run to Colt Emerson to put the Mariners up by one run. Emerson Hancock took it further, throwing four hitless frames for the Mariners.

But the Mets finally got their first hit at the same time they got their first run, a solo home run from Jared Young to lead off the fifth inning and tie the game. And Marcus Semien repeated the feat in the top of the sixth, hitting another solo home run for the Mets’ second run–and hit–of the game, putting the Mets ahead by a run.

Sean Manaea made it through five innings allowing just the one run, getting pulled after the sixth inning having allowed just the one run, with a hit and walk allowed and four strikeouts, a great effort from Manaea. Brooks Raley came in to start the seventh, and he gave up a game-tying home run to Josh Naylor. He wasn’t able to make it through the whole bottom of the seventh, getting pulled after allowing a two-out single to Cole Young in favor of Luke Weaver. 

Weaver got them out of the seventh and through the eighth, tallying a scoreless inning and a third, allowing no hits and striking out one. Williams led them through a perfect ninth to get them to extra innings.

The Mets were unable to get another hit after Semien’s sixth inning homerun, and it came back to bite them. After being unable to bring the extra runner into score in the top of the tenth, A.J. Minter got one out before allowing a game-winning single to end the game in the tenth.

The four game winning streak was brought to a halt, and the Mets offense went back to looking anemic. They could only muster two hits against an admittedly-great Mariners pitching staff, and their own pitching was out-duelled in that aspect. They get another crack at the Mariners on Tuesday, with Jonah Tong likely getting the bulk of the innings against Logan Gilbert (though there may be another opener for the Mets).

SB Nation GameThreads

Amazin’ Avenue
Lookout Landing

Box scores

MLB.com
ESPN

Win Probability Added

What’s WPA?

Big Mets winner: Sean Manaea, +19% WPA
Big Mets loser: A.J. Minter, -38% WPA
Mets pitchers: -13% WPA
Mets hitters: -37% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Marcus Semien’s sixth inning home run, +17.9% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Josh Naylor’s seventh inning home run, -24.8% WPA

The Mets were walked off by the Seattle Mariners 3-2 on Monday night at T-Mobile Park.

Here are some takeaways...

- The Mets weren't able to get anything going against Seattle's Emerson Hancock the first time time through the order, as he retired the first 12 batters he faced and didn't have to work through a three-ball count until two outs in the fourth. 

- New York was finally able to get to Hancock in the middle frames, though, as both Jared Young and Marcus Semien stayed red-hot leading off the fifth and sixth (respectively) with solo shots. Young's evened things up at one apiece, and then Semien's gave the Mets their first lead. 

- Austin Warren and Sean Manaea did a tremendous job of matching Hancock. Warren retired the side in order in the first, then he hit the leadoff man in the second before Manaea took things over, and he used a routine double-play to dance his way out of a two on and one-out jam. 

Colt Emerson got to Manaea for a solo homer with one out in the third, but the lefty quickly settled back into a groove, retiring the next 11 batters in order, with some help from another terrific diving play by A.J. Ewing in center. 

- Manaea was outstanding his first time back in the Mets' rotation, allowing just that hit and a walk while striking out four across five innings of work. That not only match Manaea's longest outing of the season, but it was also the longest by any Mets reliever to this point on the year. 

- Brooks Raley was greeted rudely after the seventh inning stretch, as he immediately served up a homer to Josh Naylor leading the inning. It was the fourth hit of the ballgame to that point -- all of which were solo homers -- and was the second long ball Raley's allowed this season. 

- Luke Weaver extended his scoreless streak, retiring four batters across the seventh and eighth, then Devin Williams struck out two in a perfect ninth to push this one to the Mets' league-high 12th extra-inning game of the season.

- The Mets failed to cash in the free runner with two strikeouts and a popout in the top of the 10th, and the Mariners were sure to make them pay, ending the game on Cole Young's opposite-field walk-off single against A.J. Minter. 

- New York managed just two baserunners (a HBP and the free runner) after Hancock left the ballgame, as Seattle's high-powered bullpen finished the night with four hitless innings. The free runner was the Mets' only time reaching scoring position and they struck out 12 times. 

- Juan Soto went 0-for-4 with a strikeout leading off the 10th, ending his on-base streak at 15 games. 

Game MVP: Cole Young 

The 22-year-old reached three times and played hero in the late innings. 

Highlights

JARED YOUNG!

The Mets' first hit and baserunner of the night is a home run! pic.twitter.com/UhmntN3gQ7

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 2, 2026

A.J. EWING TO THE RESCUE! pic.twitter.com/LziFIOg04f

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 2, 2026

Marcus Semien destroys one to left for the lead!

Homers on back-to-back days! pic.twitter.com/As5RmGoAbx

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 2, 2026

Juan Soto loves his psychopaths pic.twitter.com/42WQSrx49l

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) June 2, 2026

What's next

The Mets and Mariners continue the series on Tuesday night at 9:40 p.m. on SNY.

Jonah Tong is expected to work in bulk relief against Logan Gilbert. 

Experience won out over youth as Eduardo Rodríguez outdueled Emmet Sheehan to lead the Diamondbacks to a 4-1 win over the Dodgers. The reigning back-to-back champs rolled into town with the Diamondbacks having scored only three runs in their last two games—and for a team that managed to hit three home runs, the Diamondbacks offense could’ve done a lot more than just those four runs, even if they turned out to be more than plenty for the home squad. The Dodgers even took the early lead but allowed one home run in each of the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings to surrender control of this one, with those first two coming against Emmet Sheehan before Ketel Marte gave the Diamondbacks a bit of cushion with a two-run shot in the bottom of the eighth against Jack Dreyer.

What was a cruise control outing for Sheehan got quickly undone by solo shots to Tommy Troy and Nolan Arenado. Because Sheehan was removed right after that second home run, he left the game on the hook for the loss, his second of the year, even though he didn’t record a single pitch with the Dodgers trailing. Inducing a lot of soft contact but without a ton of whiffs, Sheehan paid the price on a couple of mistakes against Troy and Arenado on a fastball down the middle and a slider that didn’t break enough, respectively. There is a symmetry to acknowledge with Troy and Arenado being the two players to go yard—while Troy was hitting the first long ball of his career, Arenado was making it an impressive 33 homers against the Dodgers, two shy of the Giants for the team he has hit the most home runs against in the bigs.

Sheehan’s performance covering six-plus innings with just two runs is seen in a worse light because Eduardo Rodríguez was up to his usual tricks this year. The Diamondbacks ace allowed one base runner per inning, and Shohei Ohtani, who was responsible for two of the Dodgers’ five hits against Rodríguez, helped the visiting team open the scoring in their only run against him. Ohtani led off the third with a double, stopped at third after another double from Andy Pages that was nearly caught, and then came around to score on an RBI groundout from Freddie Freeman. It was too early for Arizona to play the infield in, and with the Dodgers’ offense falling silent after that, it proved to be the correct decision. Mookie Betts and Kyle Tucker were easily retired, and the Dodgers stranded a runner in scoring position in that inning.

Before Marte upped the D-backs’ lead to 4-1, the Dodgers had an opportunity to get back in this game. As was the case when they scored their only run of the game, Ohtani once again came up as the leadoff man at the top of the eighth and did his part by getting on thanks to an infield single that Marte couldn’t field cleanly. The rest of the offense was unable to do anything with it, and a double play quickly ended the threat. Shortly thereafter, Marte left the yard for his 10th homer of the season.

Game particulars

• Home runs— Tommy Troy (1), Nolan Arenado (8), and Ketel Marte (10)
• WP— Taylor Clarke (2-1): 1 IP, 2 strikeouts
• LP— Emmet Sheehan (3-2): 6.1 IP, 3 hits, 2 runs, 3 strikeouts
• SV – Paul Sewald (15): 1 IP

Up next

After a successful Dodger debut, Eric Lauer will look to replicate the success he had against the Blue Jays, facing the Diamondbacks. Enjoying quite the resurgence with Arizona, Mike Soroka hopes to make it three straight quality starts. The first pitch will be at 6:40 p.m. (PT).