Francisco Lindor homered twice and Jeff McNeil also went deep while driving in three runs as the visiting New York Mets salvaged a split of their four-game series with the Miami Marlins, recording a 6-4 win on Monday night.
New York starter David Peterson (5-0) worked around constant traffic to earn the win, scattering six hits and two runs in five innings. He walked four and fanned four. Three relievers took care of the rest, with Edwin Diaz bagging his 12th save of the season despite allowing a run in the ninth.
Marlins starting pitcher Yonny Chirinos (0-2) absorbed the loss after yielding five runs on nine hits in five innings, walking four and striking out four. New York finished with 11 hits off four Miami pitchers after managing a total of only seven runs in the series’ first three games.
McNeil initiated the scoring in the top of the second, lining a two-run homer to right field that traveled an estimated 388 feet. It was his eighth homer of the year and third of the series.
Miami got a run back in its half of the second thanks to a two-out RBI double by Vidal Brujan. Replays showed that the ball appeared to land in foul ground down by the right field line, but the Mets didn’t challenge the call.
Brujan was thrown out trying to reach third on the play, ending the inning.
New York made it 4-1 in the fourth on McNeil’s sacrifice fly that scored Jose Iglesias, who led off the inning with a triple, and Lindor’s solo home run that struck the facing of the second deck in right field.
Iglesias upped the margin to 5-1 in the fifth with an easy RBI, getting plunked by a Chirinos pitch with the bases loaded. Josh Bell got the run back for the Marlins in the bottom of the frame with his 10th homer of the year, a solo shot.
Bryan De La Cruz got Miami within 5-3 in the seventh with a solo shot to left, his team-leading 17th home run of 2024. But Lindor gave the Mets insurance in the ninth, blasting his 19th homer.