Mets held to two hits in shutout loss to Marlins as win streak ends

Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News on Apr 9, 2025

Published in Baseball

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NEW YORK — On a frigid afternoon at Citi Field, the Mets’ bats went ice cold.

Francisco Lindor’s sixth-inning single was the Mets’ first hit — and one of their only two — in Wednesday’s 5-0 loss to the Miami Marlins.

Miami starter Max Meyer stifled the Mets over 6 1/3 stellar innings, largely on the strength of a nasty slider.

He held the Mets hitless through 5 1/3 frames, until Lindor struck a 3-1 fastball up the middle for a single. Juan Soto then grounded into double play five pitches later to end the inning.

Pete Alonso led off the seventh inning with a single, but he proved to be the Mets’ final baserunner. The final nine Mets batters were retired by Meyer or the Marlins bullpen.

The game ended when Marlins center fielder Dane Myers made a running catch, then cashed into the wall, on a 405-foot drive by Alonso.

Soto finished 0 for 4 with a strikeout.

With a first-pitch temperature of 44 degrees, many of the Mets and Marlins players wore long sleeves in an effort to stay warm. But the cold didn’t seem to bother Meyer, who hails from Woodbury, Minn. He struck out four against two hits and two walks.

It was a particularly rough afternoon for Brett Baty, who went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts and committed a costly error at second base. Baty, who is now hitting .111, heard boos multiple times from some within the crowd of 29,232.

The shutout loss was the first of the season for the Mets (8-4), whose six-game winning streak came to an end.

Mets starter Tylor Megill, meanwhile, bent until he finally broke.

He held the Marlins scoreless through four innings, though he needed to strand seven baserunners to do so.

Megill escaped a bases-loaded jam in the top of the first with a strikeout of Griffin Conine, then left runners on first and second when he struck Kyle Stowers out to end the second.

The hulking right-hander needed 72 pitches to get through three innings.

Miami finally broke through in the fifth, which Stowers led off with a single.

Jonah Bride then grounded a ball to Baty, but instead of taking the sure out at first base, Baty whipped around and threw against his momentum to try and nab the lead runner.

Baty’s ill-advised throw sailed wide of second base, putting two on with no outs.

Matt Mervis then smacked Megill’s next pitch — a hanging slider — into center field for an RBI single to put Miami up, 1-0.

Max Kranick relieved Megill from there and surrendered an inherited run when Nick Fortes’ two-out blooper dropped into left field for an RBI single.

Both of the runs charged to Megill were unearned, and he lowered his ERA to 0.63. But Megill (2-1) surrendered six hits and three walks over four-plus innings against seven strikeouts and suffered his first loss of the season.

The Marlins then piled on in the ninth inning against Mets closer Edwin Diaz, who surrendered an RBI single to Bride and a two-run home run to Matt Mervis. Diaz did not allow a run in his first four appearances but had not pitched since Sunday.

Wednesday’s first-pitch temperature was only one degree warmer than Tuesday’s, but the result was much different. The Mets scored 10 runs on 13 hits in Tuesday’s victory, despite cold and windy conditions that necessitated the start time to be moved up by three hours.

With Wednesday’s loss, the Mets finished their first homestand at 5-1.

The Mets are off Thursday, then will look to get back into the win column Friday night when they begin a three-game series against the A’s in West Sacramento, Calif.

Griffin Canning (0-1, 2.79 ERA) will go for his first win as a Met, while JP Sears (1-1, 3.46 ERA) is set to start for the A’s.