SAN DIEGO — The postseason feeling was there, with two ace beginning pitchers battling it out Thursday in entrance of a sellout crowd and enjoying at a premium a lot of the evening.
If there was a greatest signal for the Mets, it could be the best way their bullpen held as much as the problem after Luis Severino didn’t work deep into the sport.
The Mets saved it at bay with an excellent efficiency from that bullpen — at the least from three of the 4 relievers they used — in an 8-3 victory over the Padres at Petco Park to start a 10-game highway journey that features loads of NL wild-card taste.
Danny Younger, Reed Garrett and Phil Mayton every pitched a scoreless inning – with out permitting a success – earlier than Huascar Brazoban survived a messy ninth after his group blew the sport open within the prime of the body.
The Mets led simply 3-1 earlier than scoring 5 runs within the ninth.
Brazoban introduced again two runs.
Successful for the third time in 4 video games, the Mets (67-61) stayed 1 ½ video games behind Atlanta for the third NL wild card spot.
The Padres (72-57) are a half-game behind Arizona for the primary wild card.
The Padres are among the many hottest groups in MLB with 9 collection wins of their final 10 video games performed.
However now they’ve misplaced back-to-back video games for the primary time since July 19.
Severino upped his pitch rely early and needed to labor by means of the fifth, ending his evening after simply 5 innings.
The proper-hander has allowed one earned run on 5 hits and 4 walks over that stretch.
It adopted Severino’s gem towards the Marlins final Saturday when he turned the primary Mets pitcher to throw complete shutdown of the game by Jacob deGrom in 2021
Mark Vientos’ RBI double within the first inning drove within the first run of the sport.
Francisco Lindor doubled and Vientos hit Dylan Sease’s subsequent pitch into the left area nook.
Jose Iglesias’ double was the large blow for the Mets within the third as they scored twice to increase their result in 3-0.
After Jesse Winker singled, Iglesias hit a shot that bounced onto the warning monitor in deep left-center and into the seats.
Winker was thrown again to 3rd however later scored on a handed ball by Luis Campusano with Francisco Alvarez on the plate.
Jeff McNeil’s two-out infield single drove within the different run.
Severino escaped a jam within the second by retiring Campusano for the ultimate out after hanging out Xander Bogaerts and surrendering a two-out single to David Peralta, who stole second.
Within the third, Luis Araes and Yurikson Profar singled back-to-back earlier than Severino recorded the ultimate two outs.
Severino acquired Profar to load the bases with no one out within the fifth, however acquired Jake Cronenworth to floor right into a double play with the run scoring.
The following batter, Manny Machado, made a full rely earlier than Bogaerts was retired.
The rally began for the Padres with a stroll to single by Mason McCoy and Arraez.
Stop was eliminated after 6 ¹/₃ innings, throughout which he allowed three runs, one unearned, on 9 hits with seven strikeouts and one stroll.
Vientos hit a two-run single towards a pulled infield within the ninth after the Mets loaded the bases with no one out to increase the result in 5-1.
Alonso’s third single of the sport introduced in one other run earlier than Winker hit an RBI triple.
Iglesias’ infield RBI single prolonged the result in 8-1.
Brazoban allowed two hits and two walks within the ninth earlier than recording the ultimate out.
