Francisco Lindor, in attendance but not in the starting lineup due to the birth of his child on Sunday, was allowed to treat this day as a true off day, as the Mets crushed the Marlins by a score of 10-4 to push their record to 2-2 on the young campaign.

David Peterson got the ball for the first time in 2025 and returned a strong performance. He threw six innings, surrendering a solo home run to Otto Lopez in the first inning, and a solo home run to Eric Wagaman in the sixth inning. Other than that, he struck out nine, and worked around five hits and three walks, continuing the solid starting pitching performances so far in 2025.

Offensively, the Mets finally put it together after a somewhat frustrating opening series in Houston, where their offense sputtered even in the 3-1 victory.

They got on the board in the third inning, when the lead off hitter by circumstance Starling Marte hit a solo home run (his first since last June), tying the game at 1-1 at the time. The fifth inning was where they did their big one, putting seven runs on Marlins starter Cal Quantrill.

Luisangel Acuña got the inning started by beating out an infield single, and subsequently scored from first on an RBI double by Jose Siri. Marte was hit by a pitch, setting up runners on first and second with no out for Juan Soto. Soto had a wonderful at bat, getting ahead 2-0 before Quantrill tied up the count at two apiece. Soto laid off two pitches, working a walk and loading the bases for Pete Alonso. Alonso got his Mets home run record chase off to a fun start, taking a 3-2 Quantrill fastball over the fence for a grand slam, his first home run of the year, pushing the lead to 6-1. Brandon Nimmo lined out for the first out of the inning, but the runs did not stop there.

Mark Vientos worked a walk, and Luis Torrens hit a kinda funny home run (from some people’s perspective at least), as he the ball went over the fence off of Marlins center fielder Derek Hill’s glove. Seriously, go watch it.

The Mets put the exclamation point on the day in the sixth, when Brandon Nimmo made it 10-1 on a frozen rope of a line drive home run to center field. The game was pretty academic from there.

The offense did not get on base in the seventh, eighth or ninth, getting mowed down by Marlins reliever Luarbert Arias (on his debut, no less, so shout out to him). Huascar Brazobán picked up where he left off in relief of Peterson, throwing two scoreless innings in the seventh and eighth, surrendering just one hit and striking out two. Danny Young got the ninth and made the bullpen look human for the first time all season, giving up two runs on three hits and a walk, as the Marlins turned a 10-2 loss into a 10-4 loss.

The Mets will look to get above .500 for the first time in 2025 tomorrow, when Kodai Senga makes his 2025 debut against Sandy Alcántara, in what looks like on paper to be an excellent pitching match up.

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What’s WPA?

Big Mets winner: Pete Alonso,+12.4% WPA

Big Mets loser: Brett Baty, -9.7% WPA

Mets pitchers: +12.6% WPA

Mets hitters: +37.4% WPA

Teh aw3s0mest play: Jose Siri’s RBI double in the fifth inning, +15.5% WPA

Teh sux0rest play: Otto Lopez’s solo home run in the first inning, -10.0% WPA