Mets Erase 4-3 Deficit, Rout Marlins 9-4 Behind Ewing
New York spotted Miami a lead, then took it back and kept going. A.J. Ewing went 3-for-5 with 3 RBI and the Mets outscored the Marlins 6-0 from the third inning on to close out a 9-4 win on September 7.
The first two innings told two very different stories. New York jumped out fast in the first — Soto scored on an error, then Bichette scored on a throwing error by catcher Mack to make it 2-0. Morabito added a run-scoring single in the second to push it to 3-0, and it looked like the Mets were in control. Then Graham Pauley happened. Javier Sanoja tripled to center to get Miami on the board, and two batters later Pauley launched a 372-foot home run to right, scoring Sanoja and Caissie. Just like that, Miami led 4-3. The win probability swung from 48% to 73% in favor of the Marlins on that one swing.
The Mets answered immediately. In the third, Semien scored on a single to center to tie it at 4-4. Then in the fourth, New York broke it open for good. Bichette singled to right to score Lindor and put the Mets back in front, and Ewing followed with a two-run double to left that scored Benge and Soto — suddenly it was 7-4 and the game had a different feel entirely. Ewing added another RBI single in the sixth, and Semien doubled home Benge in the same frame to cap the scoring at 9-4. The story of the night was New York's ability to absorb the gut-punch of Pauley's three-run shot and respond with six unanswered runs.
On the mound, Jonah Tong gave the Mets five innings, allowing 4 earned runs on 4 hits with 7 strikeouts — serviceable enough to keep New York in it while the offense did the heavy lifting. For Miami, Bradley Blalock was sharp through three innings — 3 hits, 0 earned runs, 3 strikeouts — but Eury Perez absorbed the damage in relief, surrendering 10 hits and 5 earned runs over 4 innings. That's a brutal line, and it looks like the Marlins' bullpen decision to turn to Perez backfired in a significant way. Pauley's 1-for-3, 3-RBI, 1-HR effort was the lone bright spot in a Miami box score that otherwise had little to celebrate. Semien finished 2-for-5 with 2 runs scored for New York, and Bichette went 2-for-5 with an RBI — the Mets spread the damage across the lineup in a way Miami simply couldn't match.