Overview

• Nick Loftin delivered a ninth-inning walk-off single to left field, bringing home Tyler Tolbert and securing Kansas City’s 3-2 victory over New York as they closed the first half.
• Rookie Noah Cameron matched his career high with eight strikeouts over 6⅔ scoreless innings, lowering his ERA to 2.31 and extending his run of dominant outings.
• The Mets rallied in the ninth inning on Jeff McNeil’s pinch-hit triple and Jared Young’s sacrifice fly to erase a 2-0 deficit but fell short after Cameron’s exit.
• Sean Manaea made his season debut with New York, allowing one run and striking out seven over 3⅓ innings to bolster a rotation missing key arms.
• Kansas City enters the All-Star break at 47-50 and 4½ games out of the AL Wild Card while the Mets sit at 55-42, half a game behind Philadelphia in the NL East.