Mets score four runs in sixth inning to beat Rockies, 4-2

That allowed David Peterson, whose numbers have been astronomically better this season as a reliever, to enter the game in the fourth inning where he continued New York’s excellent pitching.

-- On the other side, Tomoyuki Sugano held the Mets hitless over five innings and had faced the minimum thanks to a double play after a walk in the third. All of that turned on a dime in the sixth inning, though, when the Mets had three straight extra-base hits to take a 2-0 lead.

-- Carson Benge started things off by crushing a leadoff homer 436 feet to right-center, before Francisco Alvarez hit one 404 feet off the left-center field fence for a double. Luis Torrens then snapped an 0-for-13 skid with an opposite-field double and New York was suddenly in business.

-- Later in the inning, with runners on second and third and two outs Mark Vientos, who had 815 feet worth of flyouts to the warning track in left field over his first two at-bats, a day after hitting two monster home runs, came up to the plate.

Facing reliever Jaden Hill, Vientos lined one up the middle and was finally rewarded for his efforts with a two-run single to double the Mets’ lead and cap their four-run inning. Vientos has six RBI in his last two games.

-- Staked to a 4-0 advantage, Peterson followed up New York’s big inning with a shutdown inning of his own by striking out the side, including two via the ABS system. He ran into trouble in the seventh after retiring the first two, but a single and a long triple by Jordan Beck got Colorado on the board. Kyle Karros singled in another run and cut the Mets’ lead to two.

Peterson's final line: 4.0 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 6 K on 69 pitches (52 strikes). He lowered his season ERA to 6.29.

-- New York finished off a great day of pitching with Craig Kimbrel leaving a runner stranded at third base in the eighth and Devin Williams closing things out with a perfect ninth for the save.

-- Defensively, Benge made another great catch, this one in center field, in the third inning.

-- After an 0-for-5 performance on Sunday to end an 18-game on-base streak, Juan Soto, batting leadoff for the first time as a Met and just the third time in his career, didn't look quite right once again and finished 0-for-3 with a strikeout, although he did walk and score a run in New York's four-run sixth inning. In his first at-bat, Soto popped out on the first pitch of the game.

Game MVP: Mark Vientos

Vientos gets the honor for the second game in a row as he continues to swing a hot bat. His two-run single was also the difference in the game.

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What's next

The Mets play the middle game of their three-game series against the Rockies on Tuesday night with first pitch scheduled for 8:40 p.m. on SNY.

RHP Freddy Peralta (1-3, 3.52 ERA) will face off against RHP Michael Lorenzen (2-3, 6.09 ERA).