Ryne Stanek gives up late home run, spoils David Peterson's outing in Mets' 3-1 loss to Orioles

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News on Jul 10, 2025

Published in Baseball

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BALTIMORE — The Mets‘ issues hitting with runners in scoring position continue to linger into the summer months. Thursday afternoon at Camden Yards, the Mets had opportunities to increase a one-run lead against the Baltimore Orioles, but came up empty each time, spoiling what was otherwise a stellar outing by left-hander David Peterson.

Right-hander Ryne Stanek relieved Peterson with one on and none out in the bottom of the eight, and served up a two-run homer to pinch-hitter Gunnar Henderson, overtaking the Mets for a 3-1 win Thursday afternoon in the first game of a doubleheader.

“He just didn’t have it,” manager Carlos Mendoza said of Stanek.

After the Mets took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fifth, Mendoza communicated with Peterson about his plans to protect a slim lead. Peterson, who was extremely pitch-efficient throughout the outing, wanted to remain in the game as long as he could. In the eighth, he wasn’t surprised to get pulled right after pitching to the left-handed Colton Cowser.

There were three left-handers coming up and Stanek was in the bullpen ready face them.

“Mendy pulled me aside after the sixth, and he just said, ‘Look, I’m going to be aggressive with a tight game,' ” Peterson said. “And I understood the situation, so I said, ‘Let’s go batter to batter, see how it goes.’ I tried to make sure that I told him that I felt good and I still had plenty in the tank. So that was kind of the plan through the seventh, and then he said same thing with the eighth, just go batter-to-batter and see what happens.”

Mendoza, not wanting to burn a warmed-up Stanek, brought him in to counter the righties. But the Orioles, seeing the pitching change, sent the left-handed Henderson out the plate instead of Luis Vasquez. Henderson got ahead 2-1 before sending a slider 400 feet over the right-field scoreboard.

“On that pitch, I was trying to drive a slider down bottom-rail and below, and missed a little bit in,” Stanek said. “He’s a good hitter and he made me pay for it. That was pretty much my whole process. Slider down and get it below, to get either weak contact or a swing miss.”

One run was charged to Peterson, who allowed five hits and struck out six in his best showing since his complete-game shutout June 11. Stanek couldn’t find the strike zone and allowed three earned.

It was an extremely pitch-efficient outing for Peterson. He threw only six pitches in the first inning, getting around a leadoff single by Jackson Holliday. From there, he retired nine straight hitters and 14 of 16. Taylor erased a runner in the fourth, throwing out Jordan Westburg at third base from center field when he tried to go first-to-third on a single by Ramon Laureano.

With Laureano on third and one out, Ramon Urias battled Peterson for 11 pitches before finally lining out to Brandon Nimmo in left field.

Tyrone Taylor drove in the only run of the game with an RBI double off right-hander Charlie Morton in the top of the fifth inning, his first extra-base hit since June 29, and his first RBI since June 26. It was the only hit with a runner in scoring position for the Mets in the game in 11 tries. Bretty Baty was advantageous on the basepaths after a single, stealing second to put him in position to make it home on Taylor’s line-drive double to right field.

The Mets (53-40), who own the fourth-worst average in baseball with runners in scoring position, had runners on base in the first, third and fifth innings and a runner on second in the sixth when Mark Vientos hit a leadoff double. Morton was solid in those situations, working back from 3-1 on Brett Baty to get him to look at a called strike 3 to end his outing in the sixth inning.

“We create traffic and we were not only not able to get the big hit, but we weren’t able to get guys over,” said manager Carlos Mendoza.

Left-hander Grant Wolfram (1-0) retired the Mets in order in the seventh, and limited them to only a bloop single by Vientos in the eighth. Vientos went 2 for 3, replacing Jesse Winker in the fourth inning after the DH left the game with back tightness, only his second game since being activated off the injured list.

Morton held the Mets to only one run on four hits. He walked three and struck out seven for the Orioles (41-50).

The Mets went down in order to left-hander closer Felix Bautista (18 saves) in the ninth.

“Look, our situational hitting, we didn’t execute,” Mendoza said. “We had runners at second base with nobody out probably four times and we didn’t get the guy over. That’s the game right there.”