New York Mets at Minnesota Twins

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New York Mets

11-5, 6-4 Away

Final
5 - 1

Minnesota Twins

5-12, 2-5 Home

Soto hits 2nd homer and Mets top lowly Twins 5-1

Juan Soto breaks open game with a 2-run HR

Pete Alonso and Luisangel Acuña had two hits apiece for the Mets, who have won nine of 11. Alonso delivered an early RBI single, and Acuña stole a base and scored twice while reaching safely three times from the No. 9 spot in the batting order.

Minnesota (5-12) finished with three hits on a damp and chilly evening and tied a season high with 13 strikeouts.

With the Mets up 3-1 in the seventh inning and a runner on, Soto drilled a changeup from Jorge Alcala into the front row of seats in right-center for his first home run since March 28 in Houston.

One inning earlier, Mark Vientos doubled home Alonso with the tiebreaking run. Vientos scored two batters later on a throwing error by reliever Justin Topa (0-1) to make it 3-1.

Clay Holmes (2-1) allowed just two hits while striking out eight in five innings for the Mets. He breezed through his first four frames, but two walks and a hit batter loaded the bases for Minnesota with no outs in the fifth. The Twins managed just one run on a sacrifice fly by Christian Vázquez.

Minnesota is hitting .203, the second-lowest mark in the American League.

Twins starter Joe Ryan needed 101 pitches to labor through five innings, allowing one run and striking out eight.

In the past seven games, Minnesota starters are 2-1 with a 0.96 ERA. They’ve struck out 36 batters, walked seven and allowed just one home run. Yet the team is 2-5.

Key moment After the Mets took a 3-1 lead in the sixth, reliever Huascar Brazobán need just nine pitches to retire three Twins in the bottom of the inning.

Key stat Excluding seasons impacted by COVID-19, the attendance of 10,240 was the lowest since Target Field opened in 2010.

Up next Mets RHP Tylor Megill (2-1, 0.63 ERA) starts the middle game of the series Tuesday night against RHP Bailey Ober (0-1, 7.11).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Larnach struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Correa flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Wallner singled to left.
	9th Inning	Castro struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Stanek relieved Garrett
	9th Inning	Lindor flied out to shortstop.

Statistics

NYM		MIN
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
9	Ground Balls	8
11	Strikeouts	13
4	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	3
1	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	1
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
34	At Bats	28
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	1
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	0
14	Fly Balls	8
0	Caught Stealing	0
176	Pitches	148
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
13	Total Bases	5
37	Plate Appearances	33
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
4	Extra Base Hits	1
3.4	Runs Created	0.5
.206	Batting Average	.107
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.382	Slugging Percentage	.179
.294	Secondary Average	.179
.270	On Base Percentage	.212
.653	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.391
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
3.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	0.5
35.0	Batter Rating	9.5
34.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.76	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.48
.176	Isolated Power	.071
0.27	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.23
.081	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.091
.088	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.071
9.0	Runs Produced	2.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
79.5	MLB Rating	60.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0