Overview
- Right-hander Max Meyer carried the Marlins with seven scoreless innings of one-hit ball and eight strikeouts, lowering his season ERA to 2.52.
- Designated hitter Liam Hicks supplied the offense with his first career multi-homer game, hitting two solo shots that accounted for key runs.
- The Mets managed just three hits and one run, with a Tyrone Taylor pinch-hit double and a Mark Vientos RBI single providing their only scoring in the ninth.
- Freddy Peralta delivered a workmanlike start for New York, going seven innings with nine strikeouts but allowing four runs and two homers to Hicks.
- Miami has limited the Mets to one run and three hits in each of the first two games of the series, securing the series win and leaving New York to face a must-win Sunday with Christian Scott scheduled to start.