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Athletics defeat Guardians 7-1, avoiding a sweep in series finale.
Mark Vientos hit two two-run home runs, leading the Mets to a 5-1 victory over the Angels and securing a series win. This marks only the fourth series win for the Mets this season.
Mark Vientos celebrates a home run in a road grey Mets uniform
For just the fourth time this season, the Mets won a series, as they beat the Angels by a 5-1 score in the rubber game of their series this afternoon in Anaheim. No matter what happened today, the Mets were destined to retain sole possession of the worst record in baseball come tomorrow morning, but a series win sure is a sight for sore eyes for a team that had won just three of its previous twenty games coming into the weekend.
Most of this game was close. The Angels opened the scoring on an RBI single by Jorge Soler in the bottom of the first, but that was the only run Clay Holmes gave up in six-and-two-thirds innings of work. He threw 99 pitches, struck out six, walked three, and gave up four hits, and he has a 1.69 ERA on the season.
The Mets took the lead in the top of the fourth when Mark Vientos hit a two-run home run. And while Vientos continues to struggle with routine plays at first base, his bat turned out to be the best one the Mets had on the afternoon.
After Carson Benge drove in an insurance run with a double in the top of the eighth, Vientos hit another two-run home run to extend the lead to four. And thanks to Luke Weaver throwing one-and-one-third scoreless innings in relief of Holmes before Luke Raley threw a scoreless ninth.
None of the Metsā pitchers did it alone, as outfielder MJ Melendez and Carson Benge and shortstop Bo Bichette, who played just his second game this season at his old position, each made a great defensive play along the way.
Mark Vientos hit two two-run home runs in the game against the Angels.
The final score of the game was 5-1 in favor of the Mets.
Despite the series win, the Mets retained sole possession of the worst record in baseball.
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When the game was closer in the early going, the Mets once again didnāt challenge a play that couldāve made a big difference in the game and looked like it wouldāve easily gone in their favor. With a runner on first in the top of the third, Juan Soto hit a ground ball to first base that got stuck in the webbing of Angels first baseman Nolan Schanuelās glove as he went to make a throw to second base. He instead took off his glove and tossed it to Angels starter Jack Kochanowicz at first. He bobbled the glove as Soto crossed first base, but the first base umpire called him out.
Fortunately, that wound up being a moot point, and weather permitting, the Mets will attempt to win another series as they travel to Denver to play the Rockies in a three-game series thatās set to get underway tomorrow night.
FanGraphs WPA graph for Mets/Angels on 5/3/26
Big Mets winner: Clay Holmes, +32% WPA
Big Mets loser: Marcus Semien, -13% WPA
Mets pitchers: +42% WPA
Mets hitters: +8% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Mark Vientos hits a two-run home run in the fourth, +22% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Jorge Soler hits an RBI single in the first, -9% WPA