Mets Bludgeon SF With Four First-Two-Inning Homers, Win 10-6
New York put up seven runs before San Francisco recorded a single run, turning this game into a damage-control exercise by the third inning. Four different Mets went deep, and Francisco Alvarez's two-homer night was the exclamation point on a thorough dismantling.
The game was effectively over before it started. Mark Vientos opened the scoring with a 369-foot shot to right that plated Francisco Lindor and Bo Bichette — a three-run blast that swung the home win probability from 79% to 91%, a 13-point lurch that told you everything you needed to know about where this night was headed. New York wasn't done in the first inning, let alone the first at-bat. In the second, Alvarez went 412 feet to right center to make it 4-0, a fielder's choice pushed it to 5-0, and then Bichette went 395 feet to left center with Soto aboard to balloon the lead to 7-0. Four runs on two swings in a single inning. San Francisco's starter, Yunior Marte, lasted five innings and allowed three of those earned runs — but the damage was already catastrophic before he could settle in.
Rafael Devers gave the Giants something to talk about, at least. He went 3-for-4 with 5 RBI on the night, driving in two with a double to center in the third to cut it to 7-2, then launching a 376-foot homer to right in the eighth that scored two and briefly made it a 9-6 game. For a moment in that eighth inning, the Giants looked like they had a pulse. That's when Alvarez answered immediately with a solo shot to left — 380 feet — to push it back to 10-6 and end any suspense. Devers was the only reason this final score wasn't uglier, and his night looks like the lone bright spot in an otherwise grim road outing for San Francisco.
On the mound, Nolan McLean did his job for New York: six innings, six hits, two earned runs, seven strikeouts. He walked four, which appears to be the one thing the Giants could hang their hat on, but they couldn't convert the opportunities into enough damage to matter. Matt Wilkinson came on in relief for SF and surrendered four earned runs over three innings, which compounded an already difficult night for the San Francisco bullpen. The story of this game was New York's lineup depth — five different hitters with multi-hit nights, four home runs spread across Vientos, Alvarez, Bichette, and Lindor, and a collective offensive performance that left the Giants chasing a deficit they were never realistically going to overcome. Lindor added his own 404-foot shot to right in the sixth to push it to 9-2, just in case anyone thought the Giants were mounting something real. They weren't.