Mets overcome 4-run deficit for 10th inning win against Orioles

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News on Jul 8, 2025

Published in Baseball

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BALTIMORE — Put the word out: The Mets are back up.

They were down, then up, then down big before tying the game with four runs in the top of the eighth inning. On a night when stifling heat and humidity enveloped Camden Yards, the Mets came into Baltimore on Tuesday night like The Wire’s Omar Little and caused havoc after the home team took a lead. They overcame a four-run deficit for a 7-6 win in 10 innings on Tuesday night in the first game of a six-game road trip, winning their fifth game in six tries.

Clay Holmes imploded in the sixth inning against the Orioles on Tuesday night, giving up four earned runs without getting an out. But with the Mets down 6-4 in the top of the eighth, Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso each hit two-run home runs off right-hander Bryan Baker to tie the game at 6-6.

The Mets (53-39) were back in business.

They appear to have been back in business since late last week when they won four straight at home, two against the Milwaukee Brewers and two against the Yankees in the Subway Series over the weekend. But the road hasn’t been kind to the Mets this season. The Mets have gone 19-25, getting swept by the Pittsburgh Pirates on their last trip.

But after Ronny Mauricio made an exceptionally tough 5-3 double play to end a two-on, one-out threat in the bottom of the eighth, there was no way the Mets were losing. Right-hander Reed Garrett came off the mound fired up. Tyler O’Neil chopped a one-hopper to Mauricio, who stepped on the bag to get the lead runner out and fired a throw to Alonso that sank on the descent. Alonso, falling over with his foot on the base, made the outstretched catch for the out.

The O’s (40-50) challenged the out call, but it was confirmed.

In the top of the 10th, with Baltimore using its seventh pitcher of the game, right-hander Yennier Cano (1-5), Juan Soto sent a single to right-center field to score Lindor, the automatic runner. The Mets had the bases loaded, but Luis Torrens looked at a called strike three and Mauricio hit a broken-bat liner right to Ryan O’Hearn at first base.

Right-hander Huascar Brazobán was tasked with retiring the O’s 2-5 hitters, and did so with relative ease for the save, his first of the season in two tries. The Mets are now 8-2 when tied with an opponent after eight innings.

Baltimore went up 1-0 in the bottom of the third before the Mets took a 2-1 lead in the top of the sixth. A home run by Mauricio off right-hander Brandon Young, and back-to-back doubles by Brett Baty and Brandon Nimmo put the Mets ahead of the O’s.

They had a chance to pad the lead with runners on the corners, but Mark Vientos pinch hit against left-hander Gregory Soto, and came up empty.

After holding the Orioles to only one run over the first five innings, Holmes gave up four in the sixth without getting an out. A one-run lead turned into a four-run deficit and the end of the night for Holmes, who exited after five earned runs in five innings.

Young was on track for the win before the sixth, and it would have been well earned. He threw an immaculate inning in the fifth, retiring Jesse Winker, Jeff McNeil and Torrens each on three strikes. It was a highlight of the game that was lost after the wild late innings.