The New York Mets are once again on the bottom of the Major League Baseball standings but have won three of its last five games and can win its series over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday.
The New York Mets got a free day of rest Tuesday as the second of three games against the Colorado Rockies was postponed until Thursday due to inclement weather.
The Mets won the series opener 4-2 Monday in a game that didn’t have a score until the sixth inning. Outfielder Carson Benge drilled a 436-foot home run to right center to take a 1-0 lead, which was followed by an RBI double from catcher Luis Torrens (fresh off an extension) and a two-run single from first baseman Mark Vientos.
The Rockies answered by cutting the deficit in half, scoring twice on an RBI triple from left fielder Jordan Beck and an RBI single off the bat of third baseman Kyle Karros in the seventh inning, but it wasn’t enough and the Mets held on to win the ballgame.
New York used two openers, Huascar Brazoban (one inning) and Austin Warren (two innings), before turning it over to left-hander David Peterson. Peterson has struggled mightily this season and surrendered the only runs scored by Colorado in this contest. He threw four innings and pitched well outside of allowing the two runs on three hits, striking out six with no walks to pick up his first win of the year.
Right-handed closer Devin Williams pitched a stress-free ninth inning with a strikeout to pick up his third save of the season in just eight pitches (seven strikes).
Colorado right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano pitched 5.1 innings and was charged with all four runs on three hits and two walks while fanning just one batter.
The middle game of the series will feature a pitching matchup between a couple of right-handers, New York’s ace Freddy Peralta and Colorado’s Michael Lorenzen.
Peralta is 1-3 with a 3.52 ERA and 1.20 WHIP with 42 strikeouts through seven starts (38.1 innings). After a tough start to his Mets tenure, he has locked in over his last four starts despite the team losing those games.
Peralta allowed three runs (one earned) on four hits and three walks with six strikeouts in six innings his last time out against the Washington Nationals.
Lorenzen was tagged for four runs by the Cincinnati Reds in 5.1 innings after allowing four hits and three walks while punching out five.
He took the loss in that game and is now 2-3 with a 6.09 ERA and 1.76 WHIP through eight appearances (seven starts). The strong right-hander has only had a couple of bad starts that have inflated his ERA and he has been pitching well as of late.
A Mets win tonight or tomorrow will mark just the fifth series win for the club in 2026.
First pitch is at 9:20 p.m. EDT on MLB.TV and regional sports networks.