The New York Mets (24-14) closed out their six-game road trip with a 7-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks (19-18) on Wednesday afternoon, powered by Juan Soto’s multi-homer game.
Kodai Senga didn’t have his sharpest command, walking five of the first ten batters he faced. The righty settled down after the third and ultimately allowed just one run across six innings, lowering his ERA to 1.16.
The offense broke through in the sixth when Soto launched a 427-foot solo shot to center off Merrill Kelly to give the Mets a 1-0 lead. The bats added on in the seventh as Luisangel Acuña’s RBI single and Jeff McNeil’s RBI triple stretched the lead. Soto struck again in the eighth with his second solo blast, marking his second multi-homer game in a week.
Arizona cracked the scoreboard in the eighth, but the Mets answered with a three-run ninth. Francisco Lindor doubled in two runs and later scored on a Soto sac fly to cap the scoring. Ryne Stanek pitched a perfect ninth to seal the win.
The Mets head home to open a six-game homestand against the Chicago Cubs on Friday at 7:10 p.m.
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