Pittsburgh Pirates at New York Mets

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Pittsburgh Pirates

14-28, 5-15 Away

Final
3 - 4

New York Mets

27-15, 16-4 Home

Alonso pushes Mets past Pirates 4-3 after solid outing by Skenes

Isiah Kiner-Falefa ropes a solo HR for Pirates

Pirates ace Paul Skenes pitched out of trouble all night and exited after six innings with a chance to win. But the Mets scratched across two runs against Pittsburgh's bullpen in the seventh to take a 3-2 lead.

Juan Soto tied it with an RBI groundout, and speedy rookie Luisangel Acuña raced home from second when Alonso's groundball single trickled into shallow left field after glancing off the mitt of Gold Glove third baseman Ke'Bryan Hayes.

Mets left fielder Brandon Nimmo robbed Joey Bart of a leadoff homer in the eighth, but Pittsburgh evened it 3-all in the ninth after an error by star shortstop Francisco Lindor.

With the infield playing in, Hayes drove in the tying run when Acuña couldn't handle a grounder to third that was scored an infield single.

With one out in the bottom half, Kiner-Falefa let Lindor's grounder scoot under his glove just behind second base. Lindor dashed to third on Soto's single to right-center off David Bednar (0-4), then scored easily on Alonso's long flyout to right field.

Huascar Brazobán (2-0) allowed just an unearned run in the ninth.

Kiner-Falefa homered off Mets starter David Peterson in his first plate appearance since coming off the injured list.

New York tied it at 1 when Nimmo and Jeff McNeil doubled off Skenes in the fourth. Bryan Reynolds gave Pittsburgh a 2-1 lead with an RBI groundout in the seventh.

Skenes yielded one run and six hits in six innings, with six strikeouts and three walks.

Key moment After the Pirates tied it, Brazobán got Reynolds to ground into an inning-ending double play with runners at the corners in the ninth.

Key stats Pittsburgh failed to score more than four runs for the 18th straight game, setting a franchise record since at least 1901. ... Skenes hasn't permitted more than six hits in any of his 32 major league starts. That's the longest such streak to begin a career (excluding openers), according to OptaStats. Shohei Ohtani went 31 starts from 2018-21.

Up next Pirates RHP Mitch Keller (1-4, 4.40 ERA) faces RHP Kodai Senga (4-2, 1.16) in the middle game of the series Tuesday night.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Alonso hit sacrifice fly to right, Lindor scored.
	9th Inning	Soto singled to center, Lindor to third.
	9th Inning	Lindor singled to center.
	9th Inning	Acuña struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Bednar relieved Holderman
	9th Inning	Bae in center field.

Statistics

PIT		NYM
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
15	Ground Balls	13
8	Strikeouts	8
3	Runs Batted In	4
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	10
1	Stolen Bases	1
4	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	4
1	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
33	At Bats	33
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	21
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	3
11	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
150	Pitches	141
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
10	Total Bases	13
38	Plate Appearances	39
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	3
2.7	Runs Created	5.1
.182	Batting Average	.303
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.303	Slugging Percentage	.394
.273	Secondary Average	.242
.270	On Base Percentage	.385
.573	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.779
1.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
2.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.3
24.0	Batter Rating	33.0
33.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.95	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.62
.121	Isolated Power	.091
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.50
.105	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.103
.091	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.061
6.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
73.8	MLB Rating	84.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0