Mets Survive 29-Run Slugfest, Hold Off Miami's Furious Comeback
New York led 14-8 heading into the seventh-inning stretch and still nearly blew it, surviving a 14-run Miami rally across the final six innings to escape with a 15-14 win on September 9. Francisco Lindor's three-run homer to right — 351 feet, three runs, game effectively salted — turned out to be the margin that mattered.
The Mets didn't waste any time. Six runs crossed in the second inning alone: a single by Ewing, another by Baty, a two-run double to center by Luis Torrens, a run-scoring single by Bichette, and a groundout that still plated Lindor. Christopher Morel then put the exclamation point on the early damage with a 405-foot two-run shot to left in the third, pushing New York to 8-0. It looked like a laugher. It was not a laugher.
Miami started chipping. A two-run single by Joe Mack in the fourth made it 8-3, and then the sixth inning turned the whole game sideways. Owen Caissie went 406 feet to center to make it 8-4, and the Marlins kept coming — a single, a walk, and then the moment that swung everything: Jakob Marsee singled to left, scoring Conine and Hernández to tie the game at 8. That play moved Miami's win probability from 43% to 65%, a 22-point swing that had this looking like a Marlins comeback story. It was not a Marlins comeback story.
New York answered immediately in the seventh. A sacrifice fly by Ewing, a single by Morel, a single by Torrens, and then Lindor's three-run blast to right made it 14-8 — a six-run inning that appeared to end the drama. It didn't. Mack homered in the seventh, Miami scored two more in the eighth, and then the ninth was genuinely alarming: a double by Conine, a triple by Lopez, and a run-scoring single by Marsee — who finished 4-for-6 with 3 RBI — made it 15-14 with the tying run standing on base. New York held. The story of the night was a Mets offense that looked like it was coasting and a Marlins lineup that refused to let it, with Morel (3-for-4, HR, 3 RBI, 3 R), Torrens (3-for-5, 4 RBI), and Lindor doing enough damage early to survive what came next. Robert Stock gave New York four innings and allowed 3 earned runs; Miami's bullpen — Faucher, Gibson, and Petersen each threw a scoreless inning — kept the Marlins close enough to make the ninth genuinely terrifying. Final: 15-14, New York.