SEATTLE – 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, it was the Mariners’ win streak that 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 to leave the Mariners within 90 feet of the win. Young’s bloop to left followed, snapping the Mets’ winning streak at four games.
In the kind of performance that has barely been seen from the left-hander since his breakout 2024 season, Sean Manaea stifled 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.
Austin Warren served as the opener on this night and worked a perfect first inning before plunking Randy Arozarena to begin the second. Manaea was summoned and walked Cole 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.
Jared 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.
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A.J. Ewing’s diving catch in center field robbed Cole 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.
Marcus 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,” manager Carlos 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 Brooks 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.
